officescape

English

Etymology

From office +‎ -scape.

Noun

officescape (plural officescapes)

1. The landscape within an office; a landscape of offices.
   • 2008, Regina Fazio Maruca, The Way We Work: An Encyclopedia of Business Culture, volume I, page 88:

     ‘But in the hands of space-mad facilities planners, the idea was perverted to justify an officescape that resembled the Chicago stockyards.’

   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 43:

     She finds the door wide open and the place empty, another failed dotcom joining the officescape of the time – tarnished metallic surfaces, shaggy gray soundproofing, Steelcase screens and Herman Miller workpods – already beginning to decompose, littered, dust gathering…