First day at work: new job, new office space, new boss, new colleagues... How will I get to know the people? How will I get to learn the so called “unwritten rules”? In France, Spain or Brazil, the coffee break is the way to go. The concept is simple: you share a bit about yourself, your hobbies, your previous experience… you basically put your best smile to entertain a nice conversation around a cup of coffee and, in exchange, you obtain a fastpass to all the past and presen

Throughout my last and unique decade of work life in France, office design has been an important topic of discussion with my colleagues : office size, individual or shared office, locked or not locked, window or no window, who takes which one … All that was nothing compared to the discussions around the ‘cubicle’. At that point of the post, either you are European and you have no idea what that is - or - you are american and you are already smiling. Let me explain. Cubicles