[ FB Loading... ( ) ] not pinned to a bulletin board at desks. At the same time, office equipment from printers and copiers tocomputers are shrinking. The paper trail is also waning, making bigfile cabinets obsolete in many work areas. There's an added bonus for employers: Open floor plans accommodatemore workers in less space, a welcome savings for companiesscrambling to cut costs in a rough economy.
Efficiency is also at apremium at a time when environmental concerns are on the rise. A survey this year by CoreNet Global, an association of corporatereal estate and workplace professionals, found that for manycompanies,

the average allocation of office space per person willfall to 100 square feet or less within five years. Only 24 percent of the 465 companies surveyed said they had alreadyhit this low, but 40 percent said they would by 2017. Squarefootage per worker has already fake rolex slipped from 225 square feet in 2010to 176 today, according to CoreNet. The main drivers: More companies stressing "collaborative andteam-oriented space" and "smaller but smarter" offices in a badeconomy, says Richard Kadzis, CoreNet's vice president of strategiccommunications.
The trend is expected to accelerate as 10-year and 15-year leasessigned in the late 1990s and early 2000s expire. "That is going to encourage companies, when they do go to market inthis new environment, to try to make upgrades to a

21st centuryoffice space," says

Dan Fasulo, managing director of Real CapitalAnalytics. "It absolutely makes sense. Your more forward-lookingfirms have already made the transition." Offices traditionally use 200 to 300 square feet per worker anaverage of everything from clerks' cubicles to executive suites.
Byencouraging staff to work from home, getting rid of offices, evenresorting to "hoteling" workers check in when they're in theoffice and get assigned a desk for
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fake omega worker to less than 100, aboutthe size of a one-car garage. "Obviously, you're going to need less space when you have openspace," says Adam Leitman Bailey, a New York City real estatelawyer. "American workers need less space than they did 10 yearsago. Just by not needing an office, you're saving space." Working in the city The move back to cities and to urbanized suburbs close to citycenters, transit lines, shops, restaurants and apartments ishelping fuel the trend.
Space in developed hublot replica areas is more expensiveand harder to find, but that's where younger workers want to be. "Cities around the world are competing to become creative digitallifestyle centers," Lancaster says. "To do that is not how bigoffices are. (Young workers) are into culture, parks, workingcloser to home, having dogs in the office." By being located near urban services, companies are saving space.Not as many workers drive, so fewer parking spaces are needed, andeateries and fitness clubs are nearby, so there's no need for alarge cafeteria or on-site health club.
"We consider the entire city to be a workplace," says PatrickOlson, who heads the development of Zappos' new downtown campus inLas Vegas. Now headquartered in Henderson, Nev., Zappos will move next year.The company now averages about 120 to 150 square feet per employee.When it moves into its new digs in the old City Hall building, itwill slash the ratio almost in half. The trend "could help lead to somewhat of a rebirth in some ofthese older cities," Fasulo says. I am a professional writer from Consumer Electronics, which contains a great deal of information about av wall plate , dab personal radios, welcome to visit!