April 8, 2024
New issue of IN Magazine + All you need to know about new flexible working rights + A warning from history about office design
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April 5, 2024
A just in time lesson about office design
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Workplace design
The nascent years of new ways of working in the late 80s and early 90s coincided with a widely held but soon to be discarded belief that the Japanese had cracked management practices. So it was perhaps inevitable that the principles of a process called just in time manufacturing – most famously applied in the factories of Toyota – should migrate to new forms of office design and the rapidly developing practice of flexible working.
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