contact office magazine #29

The many sides of
(office) culture.
No two cultures are the same. This can be seen in a compressed form
at the workplace. There is no other place where so many temperaments
encounter one another. In all places where people interact,
there is social tension.
In our essay on office culture starting on page 4, you can read about
how consultants and architects define and experience the modern
office culture, and shape a creative environment for employees from
this social tension.
Also a part of modern office culture: the clean desk policy. It’s the
usage policy for workspaces which are mainly used by several employees.
On page 14, we take a look at how this works.
Culture in the office, space for employees .........................................................................04
Smarter Ecommerce: A vintage look for young office culture .............................................08
Something useful for the office day-to-day ........................................................................11
Office etiquette: A code of conduct for open plan offices ..................................................12
Clean desk policy ...............................................................................................................14
Notino: Don‘t worry – be pretty! ........................................................................................15
Office grey zone: How colourful is the new world of work? ..............................................18
Worlds of work in culture shock ........................................................................................20
Offices from around the world: McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago ..............................22
What’s on your desk, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein? ...........................................................25
Showroom ..........................................................................................................................26
In this issue, we also explore various interpretations of new work,
enter the open space with good manners and deal with the question
of which colour concepts can be used in office spaces to create more
of an atmosphere.
It wasn’t just colours which inspired the design of the headquarters
of Notino, Europe’s largest perfume and cosmetics online shop. The
original design idea was the visual interpretation of a fragrance, fully
according to the Notino range.
From page 20, we enter offices around the world and, supposedly,
give ourselves a bit of a culture shock.
A look at the McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago shows us how
culture can literally be installed into office spaces.
Finally, another artful conception which has become architecture:
the office of Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director of the
Museum of Applied Art in Vienna.
With this in mind: happy – cultured – reading!
Markus Wiesner
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Wojciech Czaja; Typing and printing errors reserved; 10/2019.
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