'Despite mobile kit, work is still a place you go to,' says AHMM's

摘要

Twenty years of rapidly evolving digital technology has continually extended our potential hours of work. Once unhappily chained to heavy machinery, we are now sufficiently enthralled by the control offered by mobile kit that we accept the blurring of boundaries between work and play. In the connected world of post-industrial London, as white-collar workers replace their blue-collar predecessors in political importance, the office (repackaged as workplace) has replaced the factory. Interestingly, even though the means of production have changed, organisational patterns of people and spaces have altered little. Despite suggestions to the contrary, the nature of work and where it is carried out has not undergone revolutionary change.