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Alternative Officing Strategies
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 In the book Workplace by Design, Franklin Becker and Fritz Steele state, "It takes a fundamental paradigm shift to identify and implement workplace strategies that alleviate the pressures organizations are facing as they struggle to become more competitive. In this shift the workplace becomes a dynamic tool for supporting and even stimulating new ways of working, rather than a fixed asset whose performance is assessed primarily in terms of how much money it costs or generates."
As the examples in this paper show, space can be a powerful tool for leveraging, encouraging, and stimulating organizational effectiveness. Those companies cited in this paper did not adopt alternative officing strategies (AOS) for the sake of cutting costs or because it was the trendy thing to do.
Rather, they had clearly defined organizational goals and understood how change in the physical environment -- along with changes in culture, technology, and business processes -- could be factors in achieving their goals. For these organizations, AOS made good business sense.
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