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Thursday 25 September 2014

OFFICE LITERALLY DISAPPEARS AFTER HOURS SO YOU CAN'T WORK LATE

 
Employees at Amsterdam design studio Heldergroen won't be putting in much overtime. Not in the office, at any rate.

That's because every day at 6 p.m., their desks, tables and other work surfaces, with their computers attached, are hauled up to the ceiling by steel cables normally used to move heavy props in theatrical productions.

 If you leave a half-eaten tuna sandwich on your desk, you're out of luck.
Once the chairs and other workplace paraphernalia are cleared away, the space is free for evening and weekend use as "a dance floor, yoga studio … or anything else you can think of—the floor is literally yours," creative director Sander Veenendaal tells Fast Company.

Zecc Architects built the space, working from a concept developed by Bright Green.

That sounds awesome. There's just one catch. In the morning, the desks reappear and everybody has to go back to work.


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