Cool Offices
September 4, 2008 Design, Innovation
So I came across this site a few years ago but have had it tucked in my brain that I wanted to share it with people. The site shows some pictures of some really fun and cool workspaces, according to the blogger, Alexander Kjerulf. Kjerulf’s job is to make people happy at work.
It has some company on there called Google, which apparently attracts creative and fun people. Hmmm, odd that I wouldn’t have heard of this Google.
So the site also has some very interesting ‘cool workspaces.’ For example, at Red Bull in London, they have slides going between the floors. I did a little checking on another site called Designverb to verify this (because being logical, I was wondering how people get up). It turns out that not only do they have slides for going between floors, but they also have ping-pong nets on their conference tables. Can you imagine that instead of having to make small talk while waiting for Jim, you start up a ping-pong match. Pretty brilliant.
The lead picture on this post is also listed as a cool workspace by Kjerulf and is called a “conference bike.” Again, I dug into the merits of this because I was a little skeptic at first. So I went to conferencebike.com (yes, seriously) and found that people are actually using this thing. Personally, I am all for this because I find that when I go to meetings, most people are staring at their laptops most of the time. The Conference Bike would eliminate that issue and would force everyone to pay attention. Also, you could do something interesting like only the steerer of the conference bike is allowed to talk, which eliminates people talking over one another. I have all kinds of ideas, just ask……
Kjerulf has a lot of other interesting links on his site, too……“Business maxims that have to go,”“Why motivation by pizza doesn’t work…” Worthwhile to check out.
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