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Technological Institute of the Philippines

Quiapo, Manila

ASSIGNMENT

IN

HRDM313

Submitted to: Mr. Pamintuan

Submitted by: Cubol, Mary Ann M.

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Current office trend in administrative management

From day to day enabled by wireless technology, laptop and handheld computing

devices, and high-tech tools like Skype, Go To Meeting, and WebEx, todays knowledge

workers can work from anywhere, anytime. On any given day in a typical office

environment, many workers are off site, their office workstations lying empty. Employers

are capitalizing on this trend to trim office square footage and real estate costs.

At work office furniture and interior features, relates his firms experience relocating a

local client. While that atypically high savings is due largely to moving to a more favorable

rental market, a significant reduction in gross square footage also contributed to the

savings.

Even though technology makes it easy for office workers to stay in touch with colleagues

virtually, face-to-face interaction in the work setting is still prized. Many innovative ideas

are born and refined not only during scheduled meetings but also at impromptu gatherings.

So, while workstations are being slimmed down in number and size, space for meetings

and informal interaction is growing. New office fit outs provide attractively designed

spaces of various sizes for in-person collaboration, including conference rooms for small,

medium, and large groups. Small cafs lounges, and nooks with comfortable chairs

encourage informal interactions.

The weak economy is responsible for a modest bump in office retrofit work for design and

construction companies, as employers look for real estate bargains. Vacancy rates are high,

and landlords are doing what they can to keep occupancies up. Tenants are able to

negotiate good rates with good concessions,

As leases expire, tenants are jumping to higher-quality space, or negotiating with their

landlords to revamp their current spaces. Either way, the new office usually differs

drastically from the old one.

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Refletion

Strengths

Workstations are not only shrinking, they are becoming more open. Partitions are

either being junked completely, or their height is being lowered to foster greater employee

interaction. Some organizations are even getting rid of private offices, or at least reducing

their number significantly. Exceptions to this trend: workspaces for accounting and human

resources personnel who have to deal with confidential matters.

If your client wants to remove private offices, you should discuss the potential impact on

executive morale with them. Mark van Summern, AIA, a principal with New York-based

Perkins Eastman, cautions clients that want to move employees from closed offices to open

spaces to consider the office-as-status-symbol factor. You may end up with increased

turnover from more senior people who are accustomed to having their own offices, van

Summern warns.

When private offices are included in a new fitout, they are now being enclosed with glass

partitions rather than drywall. This serves two goals: maximizing daylighting throughout

the office, and allowing everybody to see who is present. Young people want to see their

managers, notes Marie Fitzgerald, IIDA, a senior vice president with architects Symmes

Maini & McKee Associates, Cambridge, Mass. You are more likely to have conversationsand share information when you can make eye contactmore often.

In some cases, translucent panels are a necessary substitute for glass. In a recent office

fitout for a law firm, Goettsch Partners used frosted glass to partition off paralegals

workstations.

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Weaknesses

An open office environment has one major drawback: lack of acoustical privacy. With office

workers sitting together more snugly, and smaller partitions (or none at all) separatingthem, noise levels can rise, sometimes making it harder to concentrate.

Many new fitouts are providing quiet and privacy via small, enclosed spaces that are

available for any employee to use. With mobile phones taking the place of landlines in some

offices, employees who take a sensitive or lengthy phone call can head to a private,

acoustically isolated phone booth or enclave withouthaving to hang up and call back

from another room.

People like to work differently, and we dont all do the same job, quiet spaces. If you

need a full day of privacy, you can sign out a small enclave.

Pfizers New London rehab set aside 6% of total space for focus booths, each a 36-sf dog-

bone-shaped, acoustically isolated space that accommodates two. These spaces are

sometimes used by individuals to access online teleconferences.

Other strategies for quieting the office include using sound-absorptive desk-level products,

ceiling tiles, and flooring. Breaking up areas to limit the number of workstations connected

to each other can help, too.

Sound-masking technology can be used to reduce distracting noise in some office

environments. Sound masking can supplement or replace ambient noise by broadcasting afan-like white noise over speakers so that speech is somewhat diminished. Ironically,

quieter HVAC technology such as underfloor air displacement and chilled beam cooling

popular options for sustainabilitymake for a quieter space when vacant, but when people

are present, speech is more discernible over longer distances.

Office space is often designed for acoustical standards without people present, says

Niklas Moeller, vice president of Logison Acoustic Networks, a sound-masking provider and

acoustic consulting firm in Burlington, Ont. The result is distracted workers. Noise and

lack of privacy are near the top of complaints, along with thermal comfort, in new office

projects, he says. One noise-reduction solution is decidedly low-tech: asking employees tokeep their voices down. Pfizers office rehab project included etiquette training focused on

being considerate about noise. And because all workstations were unassigned, that kind of

courtesy extended to asking employees to leave the workspace clean at the end of the day,

says the S/L/A/M Collaboratives Frink.

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