Grey offices

[expat]

Why are nearly all offices grey inside? Some are even grey on the outside! So many companies talk about wanting people to be creative, innovative, 'inspired', and so on, and then they ask people to work inside a grey box with grey walls, grey cupboards, grey hardware, grey ceilings, grey telephones, grey managermen, grey suits, grey everything.

Shouldn't they be colourful instead?

Worked in a public sector office once where there was an initiative to make it more colourful. They trialled it by painting one of the grey filing cabinets orange. Somehow its grey essence still seemed to seep out subliminally.

[darmstadt]

Currently here with funky colored windows:




But possibly moving to the strange shaped building later this year: