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The housing office is unable to build new structures, and existing structures are falling apart.
You almost never hear someone say, "The office."
But businesses are spending all this money on this place called the office, and they're making people go to it all the time, yet people don't do work in the office.
It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do ... Then you've got 15 minutes, and someone pulls you aside and asks you a question, and before you know it, it's 5 p.m., and you look back on the day, and you realize that you didn't get anything done.
And even though the work day is typically eight hours, how many people here have ever had eight hours to themselves at the office?
When's the last time you had three hours to yourself at the office?
Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.
And this is why people choose to do work at home, or they might go to the office, but they might go to the office really early in the day, or late at night when no one's around, or they stick around after everyone's left, or go in on the weekends, or they get work done on the plane, in the car or in the train, because there are no distractions.
Why do we expect people to work well if they're being interrupted all day at the office?
How can we possibly expect people to do their job if they go to the office and are interrupted?
So what are the interruptions that happen at the office but not at other places?
At the office, most of the interruptions and distractions that really cause people not to get work done are involuntary.
Those aren't the real problems in the office.
Those are the real problems in the modern office today.
So these are the things that you don't find elsewhere, but you do find at the office.
These things don't exist outside of the office.
First Thursday of the month, just the afternoon, nobody in the office can talk to each other.
Giving them four hours of quiet time at the office is going to be incredibly valuable.
It was like the waiting room in the doctor's office.
What I find fascinating is that we've actually wired our world to share, whether that's our neighborhood, our school, our office, or our Facebook network, and that's creating an economy of "what's mine is yours."
In 1984, we did the first so-called "green office" in America for Environmental Defense.
And I realized he doesn't know where the women's room is in his office.
And so I said, "Did you just move into this office?"
And I said, "Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a year?"
Because no one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side, not at the table, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.
I have a slight office supply addiction, but that's another talk.
And so plastic comes from oil, so I phoned up BP and spent a good half an hour trying to convince the PR office at BP that it would be fantastic for them if they flew me to an oil rig and let me have a jug of oil.
Often, we think we're doing a good thing: You're in your office, drinking your bottled water or whatever it is, and you think to yourself, "I'm going to throw this away.
Drive the kids to school on the way to the office.
So I joined a gym." (Laughter) Now I don't mean to mock, but being a fit 10-hour-a-day office rat isn't more balanced; it's more fit.
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