T George Harris, a veteran journalist and editor of Psychology Today, put his finger on the problem back in 1977: The office is a highly personal tool shop, often the home of the soul . . . this fact may sound simple, but it eludes most architects, office designers, and thousands of regulations writers in hundreds of giant corporations. They have a mania for uniformity, in space as in furniture, and a horror over how the messy side of human nature clutters up an office landscape that would otherwise be as tidy as a national cemetery.
