Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office\'s final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office.
Enlivened by copious citations from literature, film, memoir, and corporate history, and interspersed with relevant images, The Momentous, Uneventful Day is the ideal companion for a lively current debate about the role offices will play in the future..
We all have a stake in how it will change in the twenty-first.
Like the factory in the nineteenth century, the Office was the characteristic building form of the twentieth, reshaping our cities, redirecting our lives.
Or had they glimpsed the normal to come? In The Momentous, Uneventful Day , Gideon Haigh reflects on our ambivalent relationship to Office work and Office life, how we ended up with the offices we have, how they have reflected our best and worst instincts, and how these might be affected by a world in a time of contagion.
At length, they returned to something approaching normality.
Confined by lockdown to their homes, they met, mingled, collaborated, and created electronically.
During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it.
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office\'s final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office
