Laura had started a job fresh out of university and proudly moved into her first office.
With a love for detail, she raved about the height-adjustable desk, a meeting corner, "I'm that important to them!", placed stylish plants and a few representative books.
Two cool black and white pictures from Cape Town were allowed to move in.
A citizen of the world works here.
What splendor in her hut!
Little realm of glory after all the improvised cat tables of her intern life.
Laura uploaded photos of the first occupancy for the inauguration and on Instagram.
The joy was short-lived.
With Corona, the corridors were deserted, the energy crisis gave the deathblow.
Employers are pushing for efficiency, away with permanent residences and towards places in offices that can be booked flexibly.
Easy come easy go!
The young woman wallows in self-pity.
She can't get used to the idea of using a locker in the foyer as a migrant worker from now on.
Her grandmother adjusts the perspective.
The old lady doesn't think much of distinctive territorial behavior: she has served in mahogany castles for too long, penned up in wood-panelled dwellings.
She insists energetically: Man, enjoy all the new possibilities of flexible working!
It reminds the granddaughter of the "Doctor and the Cattle" - cult series about a veterinarian who trudged through the Yorkshire Dales with his fat bag and operated behind hedges.
At that time you found mobile working exciting!
The old lady doesn't think much of distinctive territorial behavior: she has served in mahogany castles for too long, penned up in wood-panelled dwellings.
She insists energetically: Man, enjoy all the new possibilities of flexible working!
It reminds the granddaughter of the "Doctor and the Cattle" - cult series about a veterinarian who trudged through the Yorkshire Dales with his fat bag and operated behind hedges.
At that time you found mobile working exciting!
The old lady doesn't think much of distinctive territorial behavior: she has served in mahogany castles for too long, penned up in wood-panelled dwellings.
She insists energetically: Man, enjoy all the new possibilities of flexible working!
It reminds the granddaughter of the "Doctor and the Cattle" - cult series about a veterinarian who trudged through the Yorkshire Dales with his fat bag and operated behind hedges.
At that time you found mobile working exciting!
who trudged through the Yorkshire Dales with his fat bag and made emergency operations behind hedges.
At that time you found mobile working exciting!
who trudged through the Yorkshire Dales with his fat bag and made emergency operations behind hedges.
At that time you found mobile working exciting!
Ursula Kals
Editor in business, responsible for "Youth writes".
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At the next meeting with the granddaughter, grandma retrofitted.
On the internet she came across the office pod concept of a Japanese automobile manufacturer who wanted to benefit from the “workation” trend: He presented a smart work cabin built into the rear of a caravan.
When the sun is shining, the mobile office is extended.
Grandma indulges in daydreams: what would it have been like to jet off to Rimini in such a vehicle, to spend the working day by the sea with a coffee machine, electric dimming and lots of dolce vita in between.
The 82-year-old is convinced that such offices for digital working nomads will soon go into series production.
Look ahead, she tells her granddaughter.
She listens and resolves to shoulder the backpack with her laptop lighter.
In the Nine to Five column, different authors write about curiosities from everyday life in the office and university