This week's Avant-Garde Offices star is Mozilla, the company behind open-source browser Firefox. Its Mountain View and San Francisco offices were designed by MKThink with collaboration and openness in mind. The Mozilla office emphasizes teamwork at every turn. Coworking spaces, event areas, team rooms and mini cafes abound;...
The Smoffice, this week's Avant-Garde Offices star, is an itty-bitty workspace about the size of a bathroom. The office was created as a part of Durham, North Carolina's Smoffice contest, which aims to "highlight the importance of the coffee shop in the entrepreneurial world,"...
If you've ever wanted to work in a building you never have to leave, then this week's Avant-Garde Offices star, YouTube, might just have the workplace for you. With an indoor pool, gym, free food and putting green, the glass building ensures employees can blow off...
Most of us have had that feeling of being watched; for employees at Evernote, the star of this week's Avant-Garde Offices, that feeling is a reality. Business Insider took a tour of the Evernote office, discovering that founder Phil Libin has an actual robot that can chat with...
In kicking off a brand-new Avant-Garde Offices series here at Ridiculously Efficient, it seemed only appropriate to feature the new Facebook HQ first. As a child, you were probably allowed to mark your height on the wall with a pencil yet reprimanded for writing graffiti. Imagine as an adult working...
You might not think that office design and productivity have anything in common, but today's must-reads will dispel that notion entirely. * Blue rooms may help your employees become more productive, according to ProTect Painters. [MarketWatch] * Let workers design your office layout. After all, who better than they to...
