The bright colours, different architectural zones, clusters of couches interspersed with large tables, and use of mobile technology to free workers have all been widely copied. Chiat’s desire to make the office more like a university campus – ‘The idea is, you go to lectures, gather information, but you do your work wherever you like’ – was also ahead of its time. Microsoft and Google each now refer to their corporate headquarters as a campus. Overall, however, his far-sighted experiment was not a success. The results – as described in a superb article by Warren Berger – were ‘petty turf wars,
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When the workplace is a campus
