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Communicate or

About the Author

Lars Fischer is the Managing Director

SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS of the Asia Paci? c headquarters of Soft- ship. He is responsible for Singapore’s

Stagnate commercial and technical staff of 25 and for the group’s sales & marketing strategy worldwide. www.softship.com

It’s likely that you are reading this ar- boss for that matter – why they favor large shared-space doesn’t close down are most shipping companies woefully ticle in your of? ce. And for most of us, open-plan over separate cubicles or of- the options. under-integrated?

that means a large, open-plan space ar- ? ces. Increased collaboration is likely to Most shipping companies will say that ranged with desks, monitors, break-out top the list. When people share the same Building ef? ciencies they have fully embraced the digital rev- rooms and other features designed both space, they are more likely to share ideas In many aspects of our family, social olution, and that’s largely true. Almost to keep us productive and to facilitate and ask for input. Even with today’s so- and workaday lives, we have in-built ef- all will be using an accounting package communication and collaboration. We cial media dominance, people are social ? ciencies. Open-plan of? ces is just one to manage invoicing, budgeting and bill have New York City to thank for the beings at heart and want to interact in- example; so is the fact that we use our paying. For some, this will be a simple emergence of the shared of? ce back at person. Data has to ? ow through a com- smartphones to connect to the world Excel spreadsheet, but for most it is the turn of the last century. But it is rela- pany, and sharing the space facilitates wide web and a variety of social sharing likely to be a more sophisticated made- tively recently that “Bürolandschaft”, that. Open-plan is also, of course, much platforms; and that our laptop applica- to-measure package. Most will also be or of? ce landscaping, became popular cheaper both in terms of construction tions all interconnect to allow data, im- running software packages to adminis- encouraging workers to sit more organi- cost and because more employees can ages and other information to be shared ter a range of other commercial and op- cally based around ? ows of communica- occupy less square meters, but it also seamlessly and without fuss. erational functions. But the issue is one tion. delivers ? exibility. We might not know The question is, therefore, if this is of integration. While these individual

Ask any of? ce planner – or corporate what the next of? ce trend will be, but a part and parcel of our normal lives, why packages perform a discrete set of tasks

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