Chapter 4: Terraforming a Resource Hierarchy

Imagine that your business is based in a large city, and management has decided to move all the employees from several small satellite locations to a centrally located office building. Your boss calls you in and tells you that you are going to volunteer to head the committee, who gets to decide where everyone is going to sit in the new building. Aren’t you lucky? So, how would you go about it?

There are a lot of right ways you could organize the employees, but if it were me, I’d say we need to attack the problem on two main fronts: organizational and security.

A good place to start would be to examine the natural employee order you already have in place, all while identifying major job types and existing teams and groupings. But looking at the employees strictly from an organizational perspective isn’t going to be enough. This is mainly because, in real life, people don’t all sit in locked offices with...