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Flipside of an Activity-Based Office

Virve Peteri

Photographs in the article depict typical American office interiors from the 1980–1990s, documented by photographer Carol M. Highsmith (1946–). Source: Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress,
Prints and Photographs Division.

An activity-based office increases interaction and creates innovations – or perhaps not. Virve Peteri, Academy Research Fellow, has studied workspaces of the 2010s. What kind of effects does an activity-based office have on working?

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