The art of space management: Planning flexible workspaces for people

摘要: Purpose – Technological innovations and IT developments have been hailed as the key influence on changing work‐styles. However, workplace is being shaped more by people their needs. Supported industry research, this paper aims to identify explore some of various elements forces that an impact space planning process.Design/methodology/approach The gathers current thought leadership, trends external research together with author's comments opinions optimizing management. Global are compared observations in Dubai.Findings Real estate costs, building attributes, concepts, technology product for examined, they role workplace. A case study provides background details a revolutionary work‐style iWork, developed Sun Microsystems, shows how it was adapted meet requirements r...