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The Way We Work: Open Spaces at HP

A photo from 1940 showing the use of open spaces where employees could see each other but have their own individual space. Enlarge
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Date: 1940

The use of open spaces with employees able to see and communicate with each other while having their own workstations came early in the company’s manufacturing history, and remained thereafter.

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