Action Office Today
The Action Office I series was dropped from the Herman Miller lineup in 1970. In 1978 the Action Office II line was renamed simply, Action Office, and continues to carry that name today. Herman Miller describes it as “the world’s first open plan office system,” and claims a “$5 billion installed base.”
In 1985 the Action Office earned the title of “Most Significant Design since 1960” from the Worldesign Congress.
Recent modifications to the Action Office included making more storage room available and allowing for collaborative workspace. One design, dubbed Resolve, using technology and 120° corners, was permanently added to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) collection in New York City just two years after its creation in 1999.
Robert Propst said in 1997 that he had hoped that his idea would “give knowledge workers a more flexible, fluid environment than the rat-maze boxes of offices,” but regretted that his idea had evolved to some extent into just that, saying that “the cubicle-izing of people in modern corporations is monolithic insanity.”
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