{"id":1812886,"date":"2016-01-15T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/bench-mark-de-six-bureaux-europeens\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:53:12","slug":"bench-mark-de-six-bureaux-europeens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/bench-mark-de-six-bureaux-europeens\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmark of six European offices"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the difference between a German, Spanish, French, Italian, English, and Dutch executive? Although all European, their workspaces are far from alike. An in-depth analysis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Spaniard would be just as unsettled by discover<\/a> during the day, the nearly empty offices of a Dutch company, where it would be surprising to be able to easily shake hands with the CEO. The book “Office Code,” published in early December by Steelcase, a leader in office workspace solutions, analyzes the work environments specific to six European countries: Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy.<\/p>\n

“Today, multinationals must remain attentive to the local customs and norms within their various overseas subsidiaries,” asserts Catherine Gall, co-author of the book with Beatriz Arantes, “otherwise, they risk a cultural collision.” From Microsoft Office and iPhones to BlackBerry and social media, “Even though we all use the same tools, most of which originate from the Anglo-Saxon world, it doesn’t mean that every employee wants to eat a McDonald’s for lunch,” Catherine Gall emphasizes. The following images, accompanied by the researcher’s commentary, provide the proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the difference between a German, Spanish, French, Italian, British, and Dutch executive? Although they are all European, their workspaces are far from alike. An in-depth analysis. A Spaniard would be just as unsettled to discover the nearly empty offices of a Dutch company during the day as they would be surprised by the ease of shaking the boss’s hand. “Office Code,” a book published in early December by Steelcase, a leader in office workspace solutions, analyzes the work environments specific to six European countries: Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. “Today, multinationals must pay close attention to the prevailing codes within their various foreign subsidiaries,” says Catherine Gall, co-author of the book alongside Beatriz Arantes, “otherwise, they risk a cultural collision.” From Microsoft Office and iPhone to BlackBerry and social media, “Even though we all use the same tools and originate from the Anglo-Saxon world, it doesn’t mean that every employee wants to eat a McDonald’s at lunchtime,” Catherine Gall points out. The evidence is presented through images, accompanied by the researcher’s commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1812887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-1812886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-brief","tag-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814180,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812886\/revisions\/1814180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}