Intento ser positivo, pero...

Leo en Casi Seguro, que está en mis RSS, un apunte sobre cómo son las oficinas de las empresas que innovan. No es que yo pretenda trabajar en una empresa que innova, pero la eterna aspiración a mejorar (innovar debería ser mejorar, ¿no?) está ahí.

En ese post se mencionan las oficinas. O al menos las oficinas tal y como yo las conozco (y supongo que casi todos de nosotros):

Office bureaucracies make people dysfunctional and irrational: most of the conversations I overhear in the lifts of large organisations are either about internal turf wars people are fighting or what they did when they escaped from work.

Y cosas peores, añadiría yo.

Así que intento ser positivo (¡ay!), prefiero quedarme con esta ensoñación:

...offices will have to become spaces for creative conversation. The task of the modern office, as Malcolm Gladwell put it in a NewYorker article, is to invite social interaction that makes it easy for strangers to talk to one another.Offices need a social milieu like that in a bustling city neighbourhood, where much of the life takes place on sidewalks and in cafes. Those spaces need to be at the heart of modern offices not in the margins. Do not design the office around the executive offices but around places where people congregate, mingle and talk: cafes, open workspaces, libraries. Workspaces should be designed to promote collaboration, self-organisation and interaction: think barefoot and beach.
More and more large organisations will feel the gravitational pull of these open and participative ways of working. Many will cherry pick elements of the recipe: self-organisation, self-scheduling, peer review of performance, open plan, café style places of work. Some large organisations, as a result, will be more humane, productive and profitable.