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Cutbacks, changing times prod companies to rethink office space.

Publication: San Francisco Chronicle
Publication Date: 08-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Justin Berton; Chronicle Staff Writer

For workers who survived the latest round of layoffs in their San Francisco offices, the landscape can be a dreary sight: empty cubicles where co-workers once sat, whisper-quiet hallways and once-bustling conference rooms now eerily vacant.

Yet for local office designers, the new cubicle wasteland spells inspiration.

With the economic downturn forcing companies to lease unused office space, and an incoming workforce led by iPhone-toting millennials - those born in the late '80s and early '90s - the design trend toward high-density, communal spaces has been greatly accelerated, experts say.

"Now is the time companies are coming up with more effective ways to shed the extra space so people aren't sitting in cubicle graveyards," said Collin...

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