How to design an office for every type of brain

My own, in my home office, is not unlike a pilot’s cockpit; without getting out of my swivel chair, I can operate my computers, my TV, and my CD player. I can reach my most important reference books, and I have two “surfaces” for paperwork. Once you get to work, you ought to be able to stay at work without having to jump up and down every minute or

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You should protect your team’s “deep work” at all costs. Traditional work environments optimize for rapid-fire communication. Meetings, Slack, text messages, and stand-ups are examples. Levels thinks these defaults are disastrous and reduce the amount of “deep work” its team can do. It does everything possible to protect this time.