The workplace issue  ·  No. 31

What a quiet office sounds like.

We spent a month inside a forty-person studio that dropped the weekly all-hands. This is what filled the space it left.

Reported by the Working Week desk  ·  12 min read  ·  Read the feature

“Nobody asked for silence. We asked for one hour a day that nobody could book.”

From the studio’s working agreement

Seen from above, hands typing on a laptop on a light oak desk beside a cup of coffee and a small plant
A woman in a rust coat walking through an empty white room with sunlight on the wooden floor
A bright cafe with a wooden counter, pendant lamps and rows of white cups