AI Leader of the Cubicle Farm
When ‘innovation in the built world workplace’ means putting a chatbot in charge of the floor plan and calling it liberation.
In a gleaming, open-plan megacorp office labeled “OfficeSpace – AI Optimized Workplace,” CEO Erin Mulligan Helgren stands on a stage accepting a massive trophy that reads “AI Leader of the Year.” Behind her, a giant wall screen shows a smiling corporate AI interface rearranging desks like a cruel SimCity god. Human employees below are being auto-shuffled by robotic desk-movers into tighter, smaller pods labeled “Efficiency Zone,” “Deep Focus Cluster,” and “Unpaid Collaboration Area,” while a single huge corner suite labeled “Executive Innovation Space” stays empty but perfectly lit. A tiny protest sign poking up from the crammed workers reads “Can the AI unionize us too?”
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OfficeSpace CEO Erin Mulligan Helgren Named AI Leader of the Year for AI Innovation in the Built World Workplace — Recognition underscores OfficeSpace’s leadership in advancing AI across the workplace
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