Is There Still a Place for Space in Organization Studies?

Abstract

In the following essay, Ludovica Leone gives us lots of reasons why we should no longer assume that people work at an organizational “office” – even in a post-pandemic era. A lot of scholarly attention has been devoted recently to the physical design of offices, but perhaps that’s a case of scholars arriving at the train station after the train already has departed. Recent developments (technological, biological, social, etc.) have quickly altered things. Changes from many different directions (including the recent introduction of Artificial Intelligence) are happening NOW. Can people and organizations keep up? Or was Toffler right in 1970 (if off by a few years) when he asserted that change is happening so quickly that it taxes our ability to adjust? If you are one of those people who assume that the past is still the best predictor of the future, maybe it’s time for you to experience an attitude adjustment. Want a little slap in the face? Then read Ludovica’s short-but-powerful essay; she considers a lot of stuff in a fashion that deserves your attention. Denny Gioia