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& Young, GlaxoSmithKline, Alcoa, and
H.J. Heinz.
The amount of space per employee
shrank from 500 square feet in the
1970s to 200 square feet in 2010, according
to Peter Miscovich, a managing
director at the real estate brokerage
firm Jones Lang LaSalle. “There has
been a shift from ‘I’ to ‘we’ work,”
Steelcase CEO James Hackett told Fast
Company magazine in 2005. “Employees
used to work alone in ‘I’ settings.
Today, working in teams and groups is
highly valued. We are designing
products to facilitate that.” Rival office
manufacturer Herman Miller, Inc., has
not only introduced new furniture designed
to accommodate “the move toward
collaboration and teaming in the
workplace” but also moved its own top
executives from private offices to an
open space. In 2006, the Ross School of
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