Imagine, for a minute, you’re back in the office. Maybe on one of those vast floors that were really designed for something or somebody else. You make your way in a very straight line through a canyon between identical workstations.
Anything non-standard catches your eye.
Imagine, though, if it wasn’t just jackets on the backs of chairs, family photos and mementos of deals, quizzes and sporting victories. What if you saw those colleagues who work for you perched on the edge of their bed or sharing a crowded kitchen table. Instead of those uniform black chairs, height-adjusted for work surface and screen, a miscellany of benches, chairs, sagging sofas, and floors.
Depending on mood and personality, you might be offended by these deviations from the designer’s norm. Or you might be concerned for the eye-strain, the cricked necks and the backache that are surely to come.
Maybe even enough to do something about it.