Andrew Laing
6 Papers
152 Citations
Andrew Laing is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: User expectations & Facility management. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
New environments for working : the re-design of offices and environmental systems for new ways of working
Francis Duffy,Denice Jaunzens,Andrew Laing,Stephen Willis +3 more
- 01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The Responsible Workplace as discussed by the authors is based on a major research project undertaken by DEGW and the BRE and identifies the key organizational changes, patterns of work, work settings and types of space layouts and it will help specifiers and users of environmental systems understand what products will be suitable for innovative ways of office working.
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The Responsible Workplace
TL;DR: The Responsible Workplace as discussed by the authors investigates the essential nature of the office building itself and identifies two realities which drive the demand for improvement: more powerful IT and more discriminating users, and identifies ten initiatives for innovation which will virtually remake the working environment and invent the cities of the 2000s.
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The Post‐Fordist Workplace: Issues of Time and Place
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the requirement of the conventional office would appear to be holding back the near applications of IT and organizational creativity, which aim to promote a much freer and more dynamic relationship between space and time for the office workplace.
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Desk sharing; the politics of space
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that the trend towards desk sharing is the result of the need to think of the office as a full-time productive resource and that the office should be viewed as a resource.
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The shrinking HQ: can cost cutting allow for innovation?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine new organisational imperatives and the reasons for restructuring and streamlining of company headquarters and present the ways that headquarters buildings have responded to the changing business environment.
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