Big taught us that work should be fun, but it might be time for our offices to grow up, writes Rory Okay to

摘要

Have you seen Big, the '80s body swap comedy where a 12-year-old boy wishes he were grown up, only to wake up the next day with the adult body of Tom Hanks but the same adolescent brain? Like much of Hollywood's output, It is in fact, straight propaganda for what was then - in the US at least - the emerging paradigm in office design, based on the concept of play, which is now commonplace in new media workplaces around the world. They should show it at this year's British Council for Offices annual conference in Manchester, later this year.