New Corporate Design Includes a Healthy Dose of Inconvenience

People who work for Sprint are encouraged to do just that: sprint. Or, if they prefer to move more slowly, they can jog, or run in place. The company’s new office park in Overland Park, Kansas includes a three-story fitness center, a gymnasium, two jogging trails and recreation fields. Seems that corporate American finally figured out that healthy employees are more productive employees, not to mention less expensive employees when comes to paying the health care bill. As this story explains, Sprint and other large employers are deliberately reversing the long trend toward designing buildings for convenience. Next year’s model buildings are designed to make it harder to get from place to place. So far, says a Sprint spokesperson, the Darwinian design is pleasing to most people–but not all people.