The Co-Workplace: Teleworking in the Neighbourhood

Thanks to telecommunications breakthroughs, almost half of all jobs in North America and Europe could today be performed away from a traditional office. This title explores the co-workplace , a new type of neighbourhood-based facility offering the benefits of remote work while maintaining boundaries between work and home. Borrowing the experience of cooperative artists’ studios, business incubators and the corner copy shop, the new cop-workplace would be planned by the people who would readily use it. It would be close to home with access to such amenities as meeting rooms, childcare, food services and recreation facilities. It would combine the infrastructure of a good corporate office with the healthy convenience of walking to work. In this practical book, Johnson draws lessons from spaces used collaboratively by software developers, artists, lawyers and other professionals to explain how office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life. Tackling one of the central policy and planning issues of our time, this title should be of interest to those in urban planning, communications, work and leisure studies and women’s studies.