The future of the office 2020

Group Members

• Qingjing Yang
• Tiantian Gu
• Dejan Radosavljevik
• Erwin Marges
• Yuguang Shi

Research Questions

Basic:

1. What is an office?(by Qingjing)
2. What’s the standard utility in modern office? (by Qingjing)
3. What kind of equipment is used in modern office? (by Qingjing)
4. What does it take to build an office building? (by Dejan)
5. What is shared office space? (by Dejan)
6. What is done at an office that cannot be done elsewhere? (by Erwin)
7. What’s the significance of the Office existence for organization?(by Tiantian)
8. What’s the significance of the Office existence for employees? (by Tiantian)
9. What types of work may perform in an Office? (by Tiantian)
10. What are the different types of existent Office? (by Tiantian)
11. What is the origin of the office?(by Yuguang)
12. How many hours the staffs have to work per day? Per weekend? (by Qingjing)

Cost Related:

1. What kind of costs are involved with an office?(by Dejan)
2. How much does cost to build an office? (by Dejan)
3. What is Net Usable Area? (by Dejan)
4. What is Space Utilization Standard? (by Dejan)
5. What are Occupancy Costs? (by Dejan)
6. What are Total Occupancy Costs per Workstation? (by Dejan)
7. How much do office furniture and equipment cost? (by Dejan)

Energy/Environment:

1. How much energy on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
2. How much paper on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
3. How much ink on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
4. What kind of waste does an office produce? (by Dejan)
5. What is Green Office Guide? (by Dejan)

Social:

1. How long does it take an average employee to travel from home to office (to commute)? (by Dejan)
2. How to eliminate the negative influence of time zone? (by Qingjing)
   

Communications:

1. What kind of communications are in use in an office? (by Dejan)
2. How much is communicating in foreign languages present? (by Erwin)
3. What is a telecommuter? (by Erwin)
4. What is the average percentage of telecommuters? (by Erwin)
5. How is the trend on telecommuting evolving? (by Erwin)
6. How often is tele/video conferencing used? (by Erwin)
7. How crucial is the social contact with colleagues? (by Erwin)
8. How often do people have meetings inside the office? (by Erwin)

Office design:

1. What’s the average size of an Office? (by Tiantian)
2. How big is work space for individual in an Office? What kind of partition method? (by Tiantian)
3. What are auxiliary establishments for an Office in a building? (by Tiantian)
4. Is there a demand of wireless in an Office? (by Tiantian)

Office interior:

1. How does an Office interior color influence Office workers' mood and work performance? (by Tiantian)
2. What kinds of decoration are in use in an Office? (by Tiantian)
3. How do Office chairs and tables designed from the ergonomic point of view? (by Tiantian)

Daily use:

1. What kinds of display are in use daily in an Office? (by Tiantian)
2. What are the soft distributions for daily work in an Office? (by Tiantian)

Technology:

1. What kind of standard Office environment an Office should follow? (by Tiantian)
2. What is the average quality of the inter/intra network? (by Erwin)
3. Which communication technologies are mainly used inside an office? (by Erwin)
4. What technologies / presenting methods are used during meetings? (by Erwin)
5. How fast do companies implement innovations? (by Erwin)
6. What services does the virtual office provide? (by Yuguang)
7. What is the current development of the speech recognition system in the office? (by Yuguang)
8. What is the current development of the VoIP in the office? (by Yuguang)

Maintain:

1. How does the day-to-day equipment maintenance carried out in an Office? (by Tiantian)
2. What kind of safety precautions are in use in an Office? (by Tiantian)

Woking outside the office:

1. Does the average employee has the possibility to work at home(room for desck&pc etc) (by Erwin)
2. How is data security provided? (by Erwin)
3. Is it safe to work outside the office? (by Erwin)
4. What are the issues of working at home? (by Erwin)

Economic Issues:

1. Where is the location of the office? (by Yuguang)
   
2. What is the cost of the lease of office globally? (by Yuguang)

Transportation Issue:

1. What are the means to get to the office? (by Yuguang)
   
2. How the office opening hour related to the traffic jams? (by Yuguang)

Environment Issue:

1. What types of energy are provided for the office? (by Yuguang)

Healthy Issue:

1. How to purify the air condition in the office? (by Yuguang)
   
2. What kinds of illness related to the office? (by Yuguang)
   
3. What’s the security system of current office? (by Qingjing)

Governmental Regulation Issue:

1. What is the trend of the time people spend in the office in recent decades? (by Yuguang)
   
2. What is the difference of working hours in office among different countries? (by Yuguang)
   
3. What is the governmental subsidy related to the office? (by Yuguang)

Others:

1. How the hierarchy of the organization reflects on the deployment of the office? (by Yuguang)
   
2. How is the office building used for the advertising? (by Yuguangng)

Communication Technology:

1. What is the formal technology of communication between head office and overseas office in business? (by Qingjing)
   
2. What is the formal technology of communication between office and home? (by Qingjing)
   
3. What kind of software is used in current office? (by Qingjing)

Virtual Office Issue:

1. What is a virtual office? (by Qingjing)
   
2. Is there any hierarchical structure in virtual office? (by Qingjing)
   
3. What is the communication model of the virtual office? (by Qingjing)
   
4. What are the benefits of working in virtual office? (by Qingjing)
   
5. What type of organization use virtual office? (by Qingjing)
   
6. What’s the relationship between organization and virtual office? (by Qingjing)
   
7. What’s the relationship between architecture and office? (by Qingjing)
   

Driving Forces

We classify the driving forces using the DESTEP approach.

Demographic

• Population Growth increase tension of resource
(by Qingjing)

Economic

• Trend of Globalization
(by Tiantian)
• Global Economy
(by Dejan)
• Real Estate Market
(by Dejan)

Societal

• Labor Market Influence (supplier)
(by Qingjing)
• Organizational & Hierarchy (demand side)
(by Qingjing)
• Architecture Development
(by Tiantian)

Technological

• Technological Developments
(by Erwin)
• Mobilization
(by Erwin)

Environmental

• Environmental Concerns
(by Yuguang)
• Energy Market
(by Dejan)

Political

• Government Regulation
(by Yuguang)

Systems Diagram

Scenario's:

1. Office Evolution
2. No More Offices
3. Shared Offices
4. Energy Boom