Unconscious Bias and Its Impact on Org Design
Community members Bonnie Toland and Arnold Levin with Gensler shared their exploration into how unconscious bias guides and impacts the decision process within organizational design, our relationship with work, and our organizational models, ultimately privileging and promoting our own worldview, values, and patterns of interaction. They shared a framework of eight types of organizational and temporal unconscious biases.
We explored the American approach to work, heavily set within an American concept of productivity and efficiency, is America’s primary export. As multinational companies that set up offices globally, a single notion of work and work spaces homogenizes a vast tapestry of potential alternatives.