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In recent years many things have contributed to people
valuing and wanting a greater feeling of space around
them at home, and particularly at work. Crowded streets,
roads overcrowded with cars, stressful lifestyles,
the clutter that a modern and often ‘disposable’
lifestyle brings, the needs for safety, and the need
for effective surveillance and control in a number
of social settings among other things, are responsible
for a move toward ‘space’. Fashion and
trends in design communicated through the media have
taught us to see rooms more as simply ‘spaces’
which can be anywhere on the continuum of blank canvases
to a completely personalised environment. There are
many ways businesses can create a spacious feeling
in the office.
Removing
permanent and solid barriers such as internal office
walls, and many small enclosed, separate individual
offices and replacing them with office partitions
which are glass or which are partially glazed, are
an important tactic in achieving this. Glass office
partitions and the wider open spaces created by removing
barriers, can improve communication in the office,
can make office processes flow more easily, and can
allow easier management of the office environment.
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