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Why It's Time to Redesign the Way We Think About Office Space

New workplace trends include movable walls, outdoor spaces and sometimes no office at all.
All together now: Open seating at WeWork's Los Angeles office facilitates collaboration.

If your office still has a fax machine or projector, stop reading right now, because you won't like what you're about to hear: Your office, like your equipment, is probably obsolete.

"I think the whole definition of what an office is needs to be rethought," says Frank Mruk, associate dean for the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan. "The office may be ready for extinction--it's just a place to meet. We don't need computers anymore; we can work anyplace, at any

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