{"id":5106,"date":"2021-09-22T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:13:10","slug":"offices-should-be-more-than-just-a-place-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/tl-dr\/offices-should-be-more-than-just-a-place-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Offices should be more than just a place to work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the one thing you\u2019d change about the world of work?\u201d asks Ben Voyer, who is a leading expert and academic researcher specialised in behavioural science. \u201cFor some, it is working for a company with a true meaning and bigger purpose. For others, it is never meeting colleagues in real life. In this thought-provoking article in The New York Times<\/a>, some workers discuss quitting companies without having met anyone in real life. What comes out is that it feels easier to quit a company when there are no physical bonds<\/mark>. Ever since the pandemic started and the working from home (WFH) transition started, I have warned of the dangers of the WFH panacea<\/a>, and of a rising trend of employees \u2018ghosting\u2019 their employers. If you work in the knowledge industry, you’re only a few clicks away from a better salary, and you can decide where you want to be based – that’s the whole \u2018digital nomad\u2019 idea. But quitting can be as easy as closing your laptop and disconnecting from Zoom\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If workplaces could be more baroque, workers would probably flock back to the office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeadquarters and offices, however, do more than provide office space for employees.<\/strong> They are the material, physical incarnation of a company. The emotions one has when entering Apple’s \u2018spaceship\u2019 campus is impossible to reproduce in any other form. Working in the City in London, or Wall Street in New York comes with symbolic rewards that can be experienced physically every day. One of the missions of Baroque architecture was \u2018to astonish and delight\u2019. Those visiting baroque buildings – from castles to churches – were greeted by something that was more than a functional space. If workplaces could be more baroque, workers would probably flock back to the office.
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