Sitting chair (P. T. Eyck), 1853
Business attire, 1850s
Metropolitan Railway, London, 1863
Olivetti Lettera 22 (M. Nizzoli), 1950
Eames Aluminum Group (C. & R. Eames), 1958
George Nelson with elements of "Action Office 1" introduced in 1964
Vitramat, Vitra (W. Müller Deisig), 1976
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, 1983
Metropol and Figura, Vitra (M. Bellini), 1984 and 1989
IBM 2521 ThinkPad (R. Sapper), 1992
Ad Hoc, Vitra (A. Citterio), 1994
Joyn, Vitra (R. & E. Bouroullec), 2002For centuries people have been getting up, joining a daily commute or retreating to a space, to work. The office has become inseparable from work. Looking back at the past 170 years, allows us to see how places of work respond to cultural, technological and social forces. The history of the office also serves as a roadmap to its future. A look at the timeline shows that challenges tend to repeat themselves and new solutions can build up on learnings from old solutions. While broader remote working has been enabled by technology and predicted at the turn of the century, the past seventeen months have served as an accelerator forcing a change upon the office that is far more radical than the evolution it had to undergo over the past 170 years.
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