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...
If your office has an open floor plan, you need a quiet zone. Open-plan offices may promote collaboration and creativity, but they don't offer the tomblike silence and lack of visual distractions that many need to focus and crank work out. That's where a quiet zone...
Pittsburgh-based Davison Inventionland is one of the most creative offices in the world; its 61,000-square-foot factory houses 16 themed workspaces fitted with waterfalls, castles, racetracks and more. Founder George Davison designed the work environment solely to foster employee creativity, and his efforts have paid off: the factory turns out...
