A new book chronicles employers’, architects’, and employees’ relentless reinvention of the workplace. JDavidsonNYC writes
since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. He is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York.In olden days, offices grew as the world shrank. Sunset-free empires and vast trade networks released oceans of paperwork that in turn created a demand for record-keepers, copy-makers, storage systems, evolving technologies of communication, and the real estate to accommodate them all. Offices became the material manifestation of trust.
Although the authors don’t quite come out and say this, employers who talk of breaking paradigms also sucker architects into believing that they are shaping new forms of pleasantness, places in which employees can breathe deeply, bask in daylight at a constant 68 degrees, socialize casually, and nourish themselves wholesomely.
The book traces the evolution of algorithms that subject employees to the same real-time data-collection and performance-management systems that govern utilities and security. The badges that employees use to unlock bathroom doors, summon elevators, and pay for lunch have turned humans into components in a system of sensors and tracking devices. The more you know, the more you control.
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