I blogged a couple of weeks ago about working away from the office. In that line of thinking, Ben just sent me this piece from Seth Godin – Goodbye to the Office.
I’m completely convinced that we need a space that’s definitely ours, where sometimes we work together intensively on interesting problems. I’m increasingly less convinced that we need to be in an office as much as we are; in fact that it has certain costs – not just travelling, or rent – but also interruption, dissipation, and the accidental exclusion of those who aren’t in the room.
The classic desk-chair-pentidy office setup – meh. I work at home with my feet up on the sofa. It’s bad for RSI but pretty good for getting stuff done. I don’t even have a desk in the office right now (happens every few years when stuff gets juggled around – means I’m constantly stealing in a vampire fashion from other people’s power supplies).
Maybe it’s time to can the desks in favour of sofas, bar tables and drawing boards. And power supplies everywhere. 
