Product Description

Plan and design alternative work environments with ease. More and more businesses are looking to redesign or re-engineer their existing workspaces to boost employee productivity and reduce, or contain, their corporate real estate holdings. New Workplaces for New Workstyles, by Marilyn Zelinsky, arms you with the instant expertise you need to grab your share of these fast-growing, lucrative interior design opportunities. It walks you step-by-step through every aspect of creating alternative work environments (AWEs)--from selling the concept of AWE to senior management of investing in the right technology and equipment to planning, designing and managing alternative offices. You get case studies of 27 major companies--including IBM, AT&T and Pacific Bell--that have implemented or are implementing AWEs. These real-world examples, floor plans, sample designs and how-to photos are a goldmine of ideas and inspiration for selecting the best AWE strategy for your needs...setting up onsite offices...equipping mobile and home offices...understanding corporate-culture issues like productivity, territoriality and employee interaction...dealing with traditional and new lasws and policies...and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1122072 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

From the Author
I wrote this book because I sensed a surging interest in how and why the look, feel, and management of our corporate workplaces continue to change. I realized this interest when I wrote a column on home office design and alternative officing for Interiors Magazine. I found a mountain of overwhelming, confusing information, and realized the need for one comprehensive source with an index to which a design or facility professional could refer for helpful and insightful information on putting together an alternative officing program. I hope the book will become a reference, an inspiration, and a tool for you to use towards your own discoveries in planning, designing, and managing an alternative workplace.

From the Back Cover
Get on top of the new wave in office design, and ride it to greater productivity. Alternative work environments (AWEs) are the newest direction in officing. They can increase productivity...reduce overhead...reduce commuting time...and allow greater flexibility and nterconnectedness. But if a company just leaps into the new workstyle without planning for all contingencies, its program may fail. Designers and facilities managers who are up-to-date and knowledgeable about AWEs can help them succeed instead. In New Workplaces for New Workstyles, Marilyn Zelinsky has written the only complete guide to designing alternative work environments whether telecommuting, hoteling, virtual officing,videoconferencing, or teaming. Step by step, she takes the designer or facilities manager through the process of deciding what their client or company needs, designing it, implementing it, and managing the result. From the first stage of getting the senior management to buy in to the concept, to deciding on technology expenditures and furniture, to handling the office politics with success, this one-of-a-kind resource is the only guide you need.

About the Author
Marilyn Zelinsky is the former senior editor of Interiors magazine and has written for several other national publications including Home Office Computing Magazine. She has reported extensively on product design and is a specialist on the subject of alternative work environment planning and design. She is a member of the National Telecommuting Advisory Council and a sought-after conference speaker. Now a full-time home-based worker herself, she judged the first annual home-office products competition at NEOCON in 1995 and coordinated the second competition in 1996.

Customer Reviews

Great resource about the office of the future.
My firm needed information about designing a new workplace and an architect recommended we read this book. Now, we are thinking about hoteling because this book helped us to understand what it was all about. It was easy to understand and easy to read--there are tons of statistics, too. Great read.