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"Alt.Office" or
"Alternative Office"
or "Alternative Workplace"
Popularized in the early 1990's primarily because of the
work of Michael Brill of BOSTI, Alt.Office rapidly became a panacea for
office furniture manufacturer to launch new lines of office furniture
enabling traditional office workers to perform their work in alternative
work styles from the traditional closed office or even more common open
cubicle.
The following terms and definitions are generally
accepted to describe Alternative Offices:
- Team Environment -
A flexible work area designed to support work teams as they expand or
shrink. Examples include activity centers, project areas,
brainstorming areas
- Non-Territorial Office -
a space allocation program that does not permanently assign desks or
workstations to specific individuals. Examples include hotelling, free
addressing, and shared offices.
- Home-Base Telecommuting
- A program that allows staff to work at home during normal business
hours for the majority of the time
- Telework Center -
A small office facility with similar attribute to the main office, for
employees who work nearby to work during traffic peaks or for more
substantial period of time.
- Virtual Office -
The use of portable computers with modems and faxes, portable printer,
cell phone , and PDA to conduct work any time anywhere in
non-traditional office settings (customer's offices, airline clubs,
airplanes, hotels, etc.)
Almost 2/3rd of the responses from the 4,000
organizations surveyed by IFMA in the U.S. and Canada in 1998 indicated
offering at least some form of Alternative Office to their staff.
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