1 post tagged “work culture”

Revenge of the Nomads in the first place...

http://www.thanko.jp/goronex/

(( Looks useful if it works as advertised, keep the hot laptop in distance))

More on the subject outside your home and work place ((third place))

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950487

and

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950378

Welcome to the THIRD PLACE ((it's not a Sony PS2 ad this time)). The term was coined in 1989 already...

The academic name for such spaces is “third places”, a term originally coined by the sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1989 book, “The Great, Good Place”. At the time, long before mobile technologies became widespread, Mr Oldenburg wanted to distinguish between the sociological functions of people's first places (their homes), their second places (offices) and the public spaces that serve as safe, neutral and informal meeting points. As Mr Oldenburg saw it, a good third place makes admission free or cheap—the price of a cup of coffee, say—offers creature comforts, is within walking distance for a particular neighbourhood and draws a group of regulars. The eponymous bar in the television series “Cheers”, “where everybody knows your name”, is an example.

Zoom to 2008. Wir nennen es ((nun)) Arbeit...

http://www.wirnennenesarbeit.de/