Klutzes Need Not Apply! Office Designed For the Non-Clumsy Workers Only

By Alex in Art, Pictures on Mar 8, 2008 at 4:21 am

Look closely at this Tokyo office above: it’s designed with partitions that you have to step over like in a submarine! I can only think of one reason they made it that way: to weed out the klutzy employees! Link – via Core77


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  1. MightyCow
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 5:29 am

    They must have some fantastic workman’s comp insurance.

  2. lauredhel
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 6:29 am

    I’m guessing Japan has no disability accessibility legislation.

  3. Adam Stanhope
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    I can feel the sting in my knees and the tears of embarrassment streaming down my cheeks right now just by looking at the photo.

  4. NiteWhite
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    I’m guessing a hidden motive of theirs, underneath the beautiful design, is to challenge the long-standing business practice of favoring seniority (ie, in age) over skilled persons. This type of design would favor the younger employees and shake up the hierarchical nature of Japanese worker ants.

  5. Skipweasel
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Well, they won’t get my wife working for them until they put grab-handles by each opening!

  6. Marie
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    “klutz no need apply”? umm… nice one.

  7. twintigress
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    Actually, if I remember correctly, it is traditional in China and Japan to have to step over a threshold into a room. So much so that, in Chinese Opera, the actors mime the step just as we would mime opening a door.

  8. Lea
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    Interior designers and architects don’t often think of how things will be applied once actual people are in the spaces they design.
    I know, I go to school with them. >.<

  9. SenorMysterioso
    Mar 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    looks like someone was holding the plans upside down

  10. Christophe
    Mar 9th, 2008 at 12:36 am

    No OSHA in Tokyo!

  11. Rosi
    Mar 9th, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Hey that’s discrimination against people without depth perception (me)! Apart from that, pretty neat design. It’s good to see an office which isn’t just a boring cubicle garden.

  12. heather
    Mar 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    yeah, I wouldn’t last five minutes in there.
    “Hi, my name is-” *splat*

  13. Alex
    Mar 11th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Should be bad grammarian no need write blog article. Thanks for pointing it out, Marie Kare and twintigress! :)


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