Integrating life with work.

From: Furniture-Today | Date: July 21, 2008| Author: Pantaleo, Susan | Copyright information

By Susan Pantaleo, ASID

Designers creating new types of spaces that inspire and invigorate

The spaces we work in are slowly evolving into places where our career and the rest of our life can merge.

Demands from all facets of life require workers to adapt in order to survive. The focus on personal identity that started with the Baby Boomers and expanded with their children, the Me Generation, gave rise to the idea that work should go beyond duty and ...

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