The future of the office 2020

Group Members

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

Research Questions

Dejan:

1. What kind of costs are involved with an office?(by Dejan)
2. What does it take to build an office? (by Dejan)
3. How much does cost to build an office? (by Dejan)
4. How much does cost to lease(rent) an office? (by Dejan)
5. How much does an office furniture cost? (by Dejan)
6. What is the cost of the appliances? (by Dejan)
7. What is the cost of the utilities? (by Dejan)
8. How much energy on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
9. How much paper on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
10. How much ink on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
11. What kind of appliances can be shared within multiple offices? (by Dejan)
12. What are the costs connected to these appliances? (by Dejan)
13. How long does it take an average employee to travel from home to office? (by Dejan)
14. What kind of debris does an office produce? (by Dejan)
15. What kind of communications are in use in an office? (by Dejan)
16. How much is communicating in foreign languages present? (by Dejan)

Tiantian:

1. What’s the significance of the Office existence for work?(by Tiantian)
2. What’s the significance of the Office existence for work efficiency? (by Tiantian)
3. How does an Office interior influence Office workers? (by Tiantian)
4. What types of work may perform in an Office? (by Tiantian)
5. What’s the average size of an Office? (by Tiantian)
6. Does size of an Office matter if same amount of workers are working inside? (by Tiantian)
7. What are the different types of existent Office? (by Tiantian)
8. How big is work space for individual in an Office? What kind of partition method? (by Tiantian)
9. What kind of decorations are in use in an Office? (by Tiantian)
10. What are auxiliary establishments for an Office in a building? (by Tiantian)
11. How do Office chairs and tables designed from the ergonomic point of view? (by Tiantian)
12. What kind of displays are in use daily in an Office? (by Tiantian)
13. Is there a demand of wireless in an Office? (by Tiantian)
14. What are the soft distributions for daily work in an Office? (by Tiantian)
15. How does the day-to-day equipment maintenance carried out in an Office? (by Tiantian)
16. What kind of environmental standards an Office should follow? (by Tiantian)
17. What kind of safety precautions are in use in an Office?? (by Tiantian)

Erwin:

1. What is the cost per employee for the office? (by Erwin)
2. What is a telecommuter? (by Erwin)
3. What is the average percentage of telecommuters? (by Erwin)
4. How is the trend on telecommuting evolving? (by Erwin)
5. How often is tele/video conferencing used? (by Erwin)
6. How crucial is the social contact with colleagues? (by Erwin)
7. What is the average quality of the inter/intra network? (by Erwin)
8. What is done at an office that cannot be done elsewhere? (by Erwin)
9. Which communication technologies are mainly used inside an office? (by Erwin)
10. How often do people have meetings inside the office? (by Erwin)
11. What technologies / presenting methods are used during meetings? (by Erwin)
12. How fast do companies implement innovations? (by Erwin)
13. Does the average employee has the possibility to work at home(room for desck&pc etc) (by Erwin)
14. How is data security provided? (by Erwin)
15. Is it safe to work outside the office? (by Erwin)
16. What are the issues of working at home? (by Erwin)