Types of workplace
People can develop tunnel-vision when thinking about home-based work, restricting home-based work to the fields of either creative industries or start-up businesses, to teleworker or manufacturing pieceworker. In reality there is a very wide range of different home-based occupations. A 'one size fits all' design approach is often not helpful. While both may be home-based workers, a single sculptor making vast installations out of rusty steel is likely to require a different set of spaces to a social policy researcher with four children.
- office
- study
- consulting room
- studio
- workshop
- garage
- shop
- market
- eating/drinking
- extended use of domestic facilities, as in catering or childminding
- caretaking/security
- director's accommodation
- staff accommodation
- library
- showroom
- gallery
- transforming space
- multifunctional space