Wireless offices and open spaces From: NJBIZ | Date: July 14, 2003| Author: | Copyright Snowden Publications, Inc. Jul 14, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Flexibility is the watchword as individual work areas keep shrinking

Private offices are becoming harder to find as companies trim back space in these cost-cutting times. That makes reducing the size of offices while maintaining flexibility and functionality a hot trend in office design.

"If you turn back the clock two years, everyone was talking about technology, Internet access and making your site bulletproof from an emergency," says Matthew Jarmel, principal at Jarmel Kizel Architects and Engineers in Livingston. While technology still plays a major role in office design, companies now ...

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