Collapse of the Corporate Office
A glimpse into the boundless future of workplaces
6 min readNov 28, 2017
This is the traditional corporate office:
The modern office integrates new working preferences with traditional elements:
But the office of tomorrow bears little resemblance to its cubicle-focused ancestor:
The Beginning of the End
The corporate office has never been a single, staid style, but rather an intricate mosaic. New colors and shapes are continuously added, ever so subtly changing the overall appearance. Each change is hardly perceived, but the aggregate produces jarring transformation: the simultaneous creation and destruction of space. Phil Edwards at Vox provides a fantastic six-minute overview of how we went from the traditional to the modern office design:
