Heldergroen: Your Tables Are Off Work after 6pm!

No More Working Late: At the End of Each Day, This Office Disappears.

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An office like this in which you can both work and relax is really attractive. Personally, I like the concept of automatic work-life balance. It is obvious that keeping employees working all day long will trigger inefficiency. No shifting between places for work and entertainment makes staff more willing to combine entertainment into their work. In addition, workers can build personal relationships with their co-workers other than just discussing business issues when they are doing activities together. Closer relationships within employees bring about better co-operation in future work.

However, I think that building and maintaining this kind of working place are not easy jobs. This will cost a company a lot, to some extent casting more stress on the company to earn more profits to cover higher expenses. With a fixed budget in the short run, it is inevitable that expenses on others will be reduced, for example, wages paid to workers might decrease for some periods. For those that will rather get higher salary than relax, they might choose to leave the company, which may affect the company negatively. If this is a trend for offices to transform in the future, more should be considered by managers besides all advantages.

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