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Prescription for HR strategy:
Does the workplace help in finding the right people? |
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Technology extends the workspace:
Exploring the potential of virtual spaces |
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Sustainable buildings:
Flexible, ecological, healthy |
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Workplaces communicate:
The office as a branding tool |
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| The Office as Talent Magnet |
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| A pure white space greets you as you step off the elevator, a shiny floor seamlessly connected by the walls to the ceiling. At the far end through a big window, the Orbitz logo. Welcome to Chicago's "coolest place" |
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| Orbitz / Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| Six years ago Sun Microsystems launched iWork, a platform for remote working patterns. Later renamed Open Work, it has become well established in the company. Today, Sun is taking it a step further to develop a hybrid virtual office where the real and the virtual worlds exist side by side. |
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| Sun Microsystems / Menlo Park, California, USA |
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| Sun Labs - Massachusetts / Burlington, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Work Styles of the Virtual Age |
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Second Life is a 3D virtual space in cyberspace. Users manipulate avatars?their alter egos?to walk and fly around the vast world and communicate with each other. Unique promotions and marketing campaigns by major companies like IBM and Nissan only possible in virtual spaces have made headlines.
Greg Verdino is chief strategy officer at Crayon(http://crayonville.com), a marketing company with a virtual office in Second Life. We spoke with Greg at his home on a quiet residential street in the suburbs of New York about his work style at the cutting edge of the virtual age. |
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| A Model of Federal Office |
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| An epitomic example of innovative, sustainable design and healthy, progressive working environments, the San Francisco Federal Building sends a powerful message to the architectural, workplace-design, and green building industries in the U.S. |
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| SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL BUILDING / San Francisco, California, USA |
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| A sailing ship headed towards the Hudson, a majestic iceberg, or whatever the massive sculpture-like edifice brings to mind, Internet giant IAC's new headquarters is already an established landmark in New York City's Chelsea district, both symbolizing and providing diversity- and universality-oriented offices for IAC's numerous brands. |
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| IAC / New York, New York, USA |
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