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� rules. The reason for offices having become more “home like”, more cozy, and comfortable lies in the fact, that we spend more and more time at our work place. The comfort of our present work places, looks, at the first sight, like an advantage, while, in fact, it’s a sad truth about our lives, the center of which shifted from “Home Sweet Home” to the upper floors of Diamond Towers.
In this essay we will see what new advantages our current work places have brought us. Next we will discuss the question about the price we pay for this new comfort. Then we will try to find an answer if it’s worth the deal, and, finally, we will see how we can enjoy the new age of comfort and still stay ourselves.

Discussions of new office working conditions often conjure up visions of a dynamic and growing New Economy, where technologically sophisticated workers, spend their workdays on-line on creative and exciting projects in big, bright offices, listening to Beethoven on the background. Indeed, today we are facing significant improvements in organization of our current work place. It is full of light. It is well air-conditioned. It is full of different facilities; we can see plenty of them in hi-tech firms. I am talking about lounge floors, green corners, cafes, and even gyms. Divided cabins (boxes) create an illusion of privacy, from the one side, and better communication, from the other. Private tables and divided space give an opportunity to create “my own room” like atmosphere; women have special talent in gathering this stuff - it can be a wide collection of furry creatures, or a full photo documentation from honeymoon to pictures of first child, or even them both.
Talking about new advantages of office working conditions it’s important to touch upon the insurance subject and plenty of new employment laws that protect us today. When applying to a new work place we are mostly provided with pension, health insurance, sometime...