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According to a study, GroBroomburos, Hot Desking, Coworking Spaces or Smart Workspaces worsens communication, cooperation and relationships and demand the jerse train
GroBroomburos are built and used as alternatives to the small cells of cells for decades. They should, like their flexibilizing development by hot or desk sharing, provide not only for better monitoring, efficiency and falling costs, but also demand the communication of the employees. They do not come out of each other, can not be backed up, so they did not help but encounter each other what contacts, cooperation and ultimately accomplished innovations or improvements.
This is naturally naturally intended, but is also increasingly being implemented by the coarse corporations that build new main buildings such as Apple, Facebook or Google. The poet man people pack, so ultimately the thesis, the better the coexistence and work takes place. Because only in the team, which is more likely to be a swarm, should still be worked in times of mobile internet usage and communication. Unintentional encounters drove to new ideas, the jerking into the cell, even in a room with only one workplace is reserved for the devil and only the top chiefs, which then like to escape the openness and crap not only for meetings.
In Munchchen, Microsoft Germany has just moved into Schwabing’s new headquarters and flared from the "New idea of working" and the innovation culture. The employees can allegedly decide freely whether they want to work in the home office, on the way or in the central office. There they have no firm workplace, which should demand the flexibility and willingness to innovate.
Sabine Bendiek, Chairman of the business administration of Microsoft Germany, is enthusiastic and goes into the Buzzwords: "The digitized world introduces new requirements for the solution expertise of employees. Many tasks are now so complex that they can only be released in teams. With the new working environment we disseminate space separations and demand cooperation over departmental and hierarchy beams. Innovation arises when people discuss, sharing their knowledge and can work shared with solutions. Our Smart Workspace concept offers us room for this culture." Because everything is now smart, it was also one "SMART WORKSPACE" created. Really new is not if you have the "rigid, uniform workplace binding clears and puts on new, open burosal structures, which are geared to different work requirements and can be used flexibly". After all, there are niches in which one can also be backed up alone: the "Think Space for highly concentrated solitary work".
According to a study of Australian scientists Rachel L. Morrison and Keith Macky from the School of Business and Law on the Auckland University of Technology is the hype around the open space for flexible employees, which are supposed to settle only temporar in the company and otherwise remain in the floating, not quite comprehensible. The work in GroBlorumburos is certainly even more stressful, because here the employees have a firm workplace, but can not be from the environment and the other shielding. However, you can do your little one, albeit visible space "personalize".
For their study, the scientists conducted a survey under a thousand permanent Australians who have worked in Buros and asked whether they worked together in Buro with others, which friendships they concluded with the employees who receive support by supervisors and what negative Relationships they have experienced. This to help you find out the burdens that fall according to the model of the EMPLOYEE Social Liabilities (ESL) into the four main categories: distraction, negative relationships, uncooperative behaviors and distrust. And they wanted to capture whether the praised preferences of common (shared) work space, no better relationships and more support through supervisors, in reality.
The result, if generally applicable, is for the concept of "Smart Workplace" DESILLUSIONING, which is not surprising, because it is introduced above all from cost-round and consideration to make the work space so that it optimizes the work performance. The staff do not seem to experience these open space and flexible structures as pleasant. Reported is a surviving distraction, distrust, negative relationships and non-readiness for cooperation. Friendly relationships and the ratio to supervisors worsen: "Friendships between employees have the worst quality with hot desking and open space compared to the staff who have their own Buros or share their room with one or two colleagues."
The scientists suspect that GroBraumburos urge competition strategies such as jerking and lower readiness for teamwork. The goods not very surprising even if you need to work evenly in a team, without yourself in his "own" Lozy room — and under conditions of the factual competition, which was allowed to call for cooperation only conditionally, since the other is also the opponent, which is concerned with individual career prospects. The scientists ame that the employees in GroBraumburos become suspicious and stronger in the open space, which deteriorates relations with colleagues and supervisors. Other studies show that the cooperation becomes worse in GroBroomburos or Hot Desking Rooms, while the flow of information does not improve.
Own Buro or telework
After the Australian study, it was best for the staff who questioned them, best if they have their own Buro, share a room with one or two colleagues or equally home teleworking. In GroBlorumburos, the employees try to distinguish themselves from the Larm, the observation and distraction by digit, books shelves, plant walls or headshords and to make a certain personal place if this is permitted. At Hot Desking, this is underbound.
The scientists pretend carefully not to exercise the parts of the room and encourage jerking possibilities. Presumably, a certain personalization of the workplace also had to be allowed, just often the virtual work space is also completely unpersonal: "Without room privacy or distance, we may try", so the scientists, " to generate distance itself." However, one is "Critical density spontaneous interaction" necessary. However, this does not require hot desking or a groamburo, but shared areas where you would like to meet colleagues. However, telework could show a way out if the employees come to the Buros only occasionally for certain purposes and otherwise use their own personalized rooms. Hot Desking or Smart Workplace were therefore acted as accelerator for telephoto or homework.
This is not new. Without empirical studies and the hype of "Shared Offices" Around Immanuel Kant pointed to the "unsocient sociability" towards the observance of a necessary spaceable distance for profitable relationships, which not only pay for mass employees, but actually also in the mass animal husbandry.