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Google’s Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls

The company that helped popularize open office plans and lavish employee perks is trying to reinvent office spaces to cope with workplace sensibilities changed by the pandemic.

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Hasnain says:

Have they heard of something called a door? The gif of this in action (in the article) is quite weird

“If a meeting requires privacy, a robot that looks like the innards of a computer on wheels and is equipped with sensors to detect its surroundings comes over to inflate a translucent, cellophane balloon wall to keep prying eyes away.”

Posted on 2021-05-01T22:41:31+0000