Does office design impact our work?

办公室设计会影响我们的工作吗?

Learning English For Work

2025-11-10

11 分钟
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Do you work in your own office? Or is your office open plan. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the way we use the office is changing. In this episode, Pippa and Phil talk about office design and how it impacts work, with Kerstin Sailer, professor in the sociology of architecture at University College London. TRY THE READING ROOM: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_reading_room FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app
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  • at bbclearningenglish.com Does the office you work in change the way you work?

  • For way too long we've looked at the office as a kind of one size fits all model.

  • Today we're talking about how offices are changing.

  • Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work,

  • our podcast to help you improve your business English.

  • I'm Phil and I'm Pippa.

  • You can find a transcript for this episode to read along on our website bbclennyenglish.com.

  • OK, and to start, I'm going to ask you, Pip, but what kind of office do you like?

  • A lot of offices I've worked in have been quite similar,

  • but I would say I like there to be lots of light.

  • Also, I like it to be a nice temperature, not too cold, not too hot.