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    The Furniture Police are responsible for controlling office space and services without considering the needs of employees. They view the workspace as something to be kept uniform and sterile rather than tailored to the work being done. As a result, employees are often placed in noisy, disruptive environments that hinder productivity instead of spaces that allow them to work effectively. Improving the workplace should be a top priority since poor working conditions undermine other efforts to boost performance.

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    PEOPLEWARE: PRODUCTIVE

    PROJECTS AND TEAMS

    CHAPTER 7
    THE FURNITURE POLICE

    Presented by: Kiran Asghar (19L-2004)



    The causes of lost hours and days are numerous but not so different from one
    another.

    The phone rings off the hook, Personnel continues to scream for the updated
    skills survey forms, time sheets are due at 3 P . M ., lots more phone calls
    come in, . . . and the day is gone.

    Some days you never spend a productive minute on anything having to do
    with getting actual work done.

    “There are a million ways to lose a
    workday, but not even a single way
    to get one back.”
    RESPONSIBLE FOR SPACE AND
    SERVICES


    You’d probably want to study the ways in which people
    use their space, the amount of table space required,
    and the number of hours in a day spent working alone,
    working with one other person, and so forth. You’d also
    investigate the impact of noise on people’s
    effectiveness. After all, your folks are intellect workers
    —they need to have their brains in gear to do their
    work, and noise does affect their ability to concentrate.

    Given a reasonably free hand, you would investigate
    the advantages of closed space.

    Finally, you would take into account people’s social
    needs and provide some areas where a conversation
    could take place without disturbing others.
    CONTROLLING PEOPLE


    The people who do control space and services for your
    company don’t spend much time thinking about any of
    the concerns listed above.

    Part of the reason for this is that they are not
    themselves doing the kind of work likely to suffer from a
    poor environment.
    THE POLICE MENTALITY

    The head of the Furniture Police wanders through the
    new office space with thoughts:
    “Look at how beautifully uniform everything is! You have
    no way to tell whether you’re on the fifth floor or the sixth!
    But once those people move in, it will all be ruined. They’ll
    hang up pictures and individualize their little modules, and
    they’ll be messy. They’ll probably want to drink coffee over
    my lovely carpet and even eat their lunch right here . Oh
    dear, oh dear, oh dear . . .”
    THE POLICE MENTALITY

    Joke on worker by his fellow worker:

    “They replaced his table picture by a random all-
    American family picture and under the photo was what
    looked like a note from the Furniture Police, stating that
    since his family didn’t pass muster by the corporate
    standards, he was being issued an “official company
    family photo” to leave on his desk.
    THE UNIFORM PLASTIC BASEMENT
    THE UNIFORM PLASTIC BASEMENT

    People don’t want to work in a perfectly uniform space
    either.

    They want to shape their space to their own
    convenience and taste.

    The very person who could work like a beaver in a quiet
    little cubby-hole with two large folding tables and a door
    that shuts is given instead an EZ-Whammo Modular
    Cubicle with 73 plastic appurtenances.
    THE UNIFORM PLASTIC BASEMENT

    Police-mentality planners design workplaces the way
    they would design prisons.

    There is no more fruitful area for improvement than the
    workplace.

    As long as workers are crowded into noisy, sterile,
    disruptive space, it’s not worth improving anything but
    the workplace.

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