Less is more when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder – particularly in terms of actually showing your face at work – according to Stanley Bing’s new book, “How to Relax Without Getting the Axe”.
Of utmost importance is the art of being absent to build status, a trick made all the easier [...]

50 instances of “management speak” that irritate workers the world over.
I worked in PR for many years and often heard the most ludicrous phrases uttered by CEOs and marketing managers. One of the best was, we’d better not let the grass grow too long on this one. To this day it still echoes in my [...]

When it comes to organising a “fun day” at the office (if that’s not a contradiction to start with) there is no one activity that will please everyone. While whatever “fun day” event that is selected might suit a majority of workers, there will be a significant number who aren’t satisfied. A day off work [...]

In 20 to 30 years the workplace could be very different to what we’re used to now, with seemingly the only thing not to be done away with in the future is the work itself…
The human-computer interface will all but disappear. No computers, no faxes, no printers, no keyboards, no 2D monitors, no white [...]

Setting various items of office stationery into jelly, while a hoot, seems like a waste of perfectly good jelly to me. Plenty of other ideas for office pranksters here though.

I’m not condoning the idea of taking sick leave from work when you don’t actually need to, but then again anything that can make the working-in-a-cubicle-experience more enjoyable should be considered.
Play hooky: Remember how good it made you feel back in college to skip a day of class? That feeling can be enough to [...]

The things people create while their managers and colleagues think they are actually working. They probably even had the nerve to raid the stationery cabinet so as to produce their artworks…
The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, capitalism, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as [...]

A short history of the evolution of office layouts and designs.
There’s even a mention of the short-lived “virtual office”, abode of the so-called “hot-desk”, an unallocated desk seating arrangement whereby you would sit at whatever workstation was unoccupied when you arrived at the office.
During the past decade, furniture designers have tried to part the sea [...]

To help cut operating costs some companies are now asking their employees to work from home, and in doing so reducing the need to lease office space.
Sure, employers have been doing this for years. But as the recession bites and companies look to save money on real estate costs, what was once a cushy perk [...]

“The Steelcase Coordinated Office Approach”, great set of images depicting office design from the 1960’s. Not a computer to be seen anywhere… heh, how were they able to anything?