funky fit-out

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funky fit-out, n.

The Guardian, 27 February 2016:

The Melbourne look is an early example of what a recent report by the British Council for Offices (BCO), entitled What Workers Want, calls “a funky fit-out”. It has become quite widespread in recent years. Mind Candy, which produces the children’s video game Moshi Monsters, has a gingerbread house in its London headquarters. Airbnb HQ has miniature apartments modelled on its listings around the world – so you can sit on a sofa even though you’re at work. The London office of Ticketmaster has a slide. Actually, this is such a common feature in tech workplaces (complete with fake grass to slide on to) that I imagine dozens of slides stacked next to the filing cabinets and desks in office supplies warehouses. Infantilism is a common theme, the idea being that staff might rediscover the imaginative playfulness they last exhibited aged about three.

March 1, 2016