Pilita Clark: Ghastly modern offices need a reboot

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More than a third of office desks are never used, even though workstations in a typical, traditionally designed office take up about 80 per cent of the floor space. Photograph: Gabby Jones/New York Times Every organisation has a language that makes sense to insiders, but baffles everyone else. The Financial Times is no exception. Inside its London head office, people think nothing of saying things like, “See you in Nakfa at three” or, “Why is it always so cold in Pataca?” Or, “Where is Ngultrum again?” That’s because most of the building’s meeting rooms are named after a currency, which...