Friday, December 5, 2008

Office 2015; Your Office Is With You Around The World

In today’s modern world, strong emphasis is on making offices more and more one-touch controlled; by seeing this new trend, anyone can easily imagine what will be an office design and what technologies will be in use in future. New electronic devices and computers are ruling out use of papers in offices. However, use of paper can never be totally eliminated; it would be a false perception if anyone says it. 
At Gitex, the concept and design of a future office is displayed in which documents will be available by a single press of a button and the office will be having paperless systems. Presently, offices are being managed by a single click of a mouse but in future it will reduce it more. It is the concept of office 2015.
Researches showed that in present world, people focus mainly towards making their offices more user-friendly. They want greater interactivity between officers and workers. They want to interact with each other through technology rather than physical communication.
IBM Research started up a project named Blue Space in 2002. The company took Steelcase as a partner in that project. It was planned to design an office keeping workers more interconnected with one another which could also be altered to certain requirements. That could be shaped through a single button press whether user needs privacy, discretion or connectivity with workers. They wanted to make it far more responsive and interactive than today’s offices.
The technology of identification badge is used in this office. Software will tell your colleagues about your presence in office. It will also adjust temperature of your room as you adjust it. It will tell you about presence of other workers in office as well. It will be a one-touch technology connecting people through any desired mean – phone, e-mail or instant messaging.
This productive software will be released and available in market within five to seven years. This new software is permanently exhibited at Microsoft’s corporate headquarters campus in Redmond. The organizers named this exhibition place Center for Information Work - CIW. At this center, university students from around the world are invited to give suggestions and ideas over office environment what they see in upcoming decade. 
When we see towards developments to make offices best in portability and mobile communication, we can expect that in 2015, people may have their office anywhere in the world while sitting at any place in ship or any resort and having a laptop in their hands.

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