Friday, August 05, 2011

Smashing the Cubicles - Technology Review

A “dogfooding” snapshot from Cisco

A project at the headquarters of Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, for example, overthrows decades-old conventions about office space. Called Connected Workplace, it replaces individual cubicles with open clusters of wheeled desks that belong to groups, not individuals; personal belongings are largely confined to lockers.

There are no PCs at the desks, because the employees who use the space use mobile technologies, including the Cius tablet, which Cisco recently began selling to businesses. Rick Hutley, a Cisco vice president, chooses his desk according to which colleagues are present and what's on the day's agenda. Then he docks his Cius to a port on the desk that includes a phone handset. The tablet handles voice and video calls whether it's docked or mobile, and it can be used to share documents at meetings.

Smashing the Cubicles - Technology Review

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