Your Office and You
The environment in which a person works can reveal a lot about both their personality and the people around them. Here we take a brief look at several office environments and the differences between them and the people that work there. Heavily cubicle-based offices are our first port of call. Generally one tends to think of the office that relies on cubicles to segregate its employees as an anti-social environment. However, this is not necessarily the case, as the need to socialize after prolonged periods of cubicle seclusion may become more prevalent in one than it otherwise might. Also, if you feel the need to work solidly and without distraction, then your own cubicle my just provide such a retreat. The serviced office environment can also provide many of the qualities as previously mentioned, as you have the social area which might be something like a canteen or gym if you’re lucky, and when the need for work arises, you can always retreat to the safety of your own office within the complex. A network of communication lines direct from your own office can also provide you with both social and labor-orientated stimuli. In this era of modern technology, it’s also possible to have what’s called a “virtual office” and/or even work from home. The term usually refers to the communication network of phones, fax and email, etc, that’s commonplace in most modern offices; but it can also refer to meetings and other office goings-on that can take place over these networks. For example, a conference call, be it via standard telephone or a video conference, allows multiple people to interface with each other over large distances as if they were in the same room together.
