Buildings Quote by Andy Jassy

“Both intuition and a growing body of research underscore the reality that sharing a workspace with a large number of coworkers is incredibly distracting—creating…

— Cal Newport

Rather than trying to fit a prescribed need for office sizes, we try to go with the flow of the building as much as…

— Miguel McKelvey

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and…

— Susan Cain

“Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory.”

— Susan Cain

It's easy to forget how little strategic thinking ever gets done in the day. Judging by the ideas generated there, our beds have more…

— Alain de Botton

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

— Jill Lepore

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there,…

— Himesh Patel

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

— Jesse Schell

One day offices will be a thing of the past

— Richard Branson

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at.…

— Augusten Burroughs

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

— Annie Dillard