The Post‐Fordist Workplace: Issues of Time and Place

Abstract

The office as a workplace has reached a critical point in its evolution. The requirement of the conventional office would appear to be holding back the near applications of IT and organisational creativity, which aim to promote a much freer and more dynamic relationship between space and time for the office workplace. Henry Ford′s mass production of the 1920s laid the foundations of the modern office as we know it, but “post‐Fordism” is challenging the rigid patterns then ordained, especially the traditional notions of work time and space. To this end not only must the office be redesigned but also the nature of work itself must be redefined.

Citation

Laing, A. (1991), "The Post‐Fordist Workplace: Issues of Time and Place", Facilities, Vol. 9 No. 8, pp. 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002156