他們和愛因斯坦一樣,因自己的發明而后悔
????5.辦公隔間 ????1968年,也就是美劇《廣告狂人》的主角們經常能在私人辦公室的沙發上睡一個奢侈午覺的年代,羅伯特?普洛斯特提出了一個頗具未來主義的辦公室裝修格調,這種辦公室沒有真正意義上的墻和門。 ????他發明的“動感辦公室”在當時看來是個很好的主意:有別于以外的開放式格局,這些壁板既是一個能夠讓人專心工作的空間,也給窩在小格子里的小白領們提供了更多的臺面,價格也更便宜。 ????不過在80歲那年,普洛斯特對《財富》雜志回憶道:“他們一再壓縮‘動感辦公室’的空間,使它最終成了一個小格子。”后來他非常后悔自己參與創造了這種“千篇一律的瘋狂”。 |
????5.Cubicles ????In 1968, a year in which Mad Men characters are regularly depicted taking luxurious naps on their private office couches, Robert Propst proposed a futuristic office style with no real walls or doors. ????His creation, the Action Office, seemed like a good idea at the time: instead of an open air layout, the walls would provide places to pin up work and there would be more surfaces for the cube-dwellers. It was also cheaper. ????But as Propst recalled to Fortune at age 80, "They kept shrinking the Action Office until it became a cubicle,” and later he regretted his role in creating this “monolithic insanity.” |