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

• MightyCow
  March 8th, 2008 at 5:29 am

  They must have some fantastic workman’s comp insurance.

• lauredhel
  March 8th, 2008 at 6:29 am

  I’m guessing Japan has no disability accessibility legislation.

• Adam Stanhope
  March 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.

• NiteWhite
  March 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.

• Skipweasel
  March 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

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

• Marie
  March 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

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

• twintigress
  March 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.

• Lea
  March 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. >.<

• SenorMysterioso
  March 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

  looks like someone was holding the plans upside down

• Christophe
  March 9th, 2008 at 12:36 am

  No OSHA in Tokyo!

• Rosi
  March 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.

• heather
  March 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

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

• Alex
  March 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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