Product Description
As alternative work environments (AWE) become a commonplace strategy for supporting new business objectives, design and facility professionals will need new tools and techniques to support these objectives. "New Workplace for New Workstyles" is the first design guide to the newest trends in office design today. Designers, facility managers, executives and real estate professionals will find the most cutting edge information on: sell the concept to senior management; deal with up-front technology expenditures; provision the telecommuter's home office; apply traditional policy and law in the AWE. Examples, plans, designs, and photographs of twenty major corporations - from IBM to Pacific Bell - provide the how to's and reasoning behind each of the alternative work environments featured.
From the Author
Why I wrote this book:
I wrote this book because I sensed a surging interest in howand why the look, feel, and management of our corporate workplaces continue to change. I realized this interest when I wrote a column on home office design and alternative officing for Interiors Magazine. I found a mountain of overwhelming, confusing information, and realized the need for one comprehensive source with an index to which a design or facility professional could refer for helpful and insightful information on putting together an alternative officing program. I hope the book will become a reference, an inspiration, and a tool for you to use towards your own discoveries in planning, designing, and managing an alternative workplace.
I wrote this book because I sensed a surging interest in howand why the look, feel, and management of our corporate workplaces continue to change. I realized this interest when I wrote a column on home office design and alternative officing for Interiors Magazine. I found a mountain of overwhelming, confusing information, and realized the need for one comprehensive source with an index to which a design or facility professional could refer for helpful and insightful information on putting together an alternative officing program. I hope the book will become a reference, an inspiration, and a tool for you to use towards your own discoveries in planning, designing, and managing an alternative workplace.
From the Back Cover
Get on top of the new wave in office design, and ride it to greater productivity. Alternative work environments (AWEs) are the newest direction in officing. They can increase productivity...reduce overhead...reduce commuting time...and allow greater flexibility and nterconnectedness. But if a company just leaps into the new workstyle without planning for all contingencies, its program may fail. Designers and facilities managers who are up-to-date and
knowledgeable about AWEs can help them succeed instead. In New Workplaces for New Workstyles, Marilyn Zelinsky has written the only complete guide to designing alternative work environments whether telecommuting, hoteling, virtual officing,videoconferencing, or teaming. Step by step, she takes the designer or facilities manager through the process of deciding what their client or company needs, designing it, implementing it, and managing the result. From the first stage of getting the senior management to buy in to the concept, to deciding on technology expenditures and furniture, to handling the office politics with success, this one-of-a-kind resource is the only guide you need.
knowledgeable about AWEs can help them succeed instead. In New Workplaces for New Workstyles, Marilyn Zelinsky has written the only complete guide to designing alternative work environments whether telecommuting, hoteling, virtual officing,videoconferencing, or teaming. Step by step, she takes the designer or facilities manager through the process of deciding what their client or company needs, designing it, implementing it, and managing the result. From the first stage of getting the senior management to buy in to the concept, to deciding on technology expenditures and furniture, to handling the office politics with success, this one-of-a-kind resource is the only guide you need.
About the Author
Marilyn Zelinsky is the former senior editor of Interiors magazine and has written for several other national publications including Home Office Computing Magazine. She has reported extensively on product design and is a specialist on the subject of alternative work environment planning and design. She is a member of the National Telecommuting Advisory Council and a sought-after conference speaker. Now a full-time home-based worker herself, she judged the first annual home-office products competition at NEOCON in 1995 and coordinated the second competition in 1996.
