My Perfect Workplace

I've been dreaming to write a full-length feature on this, hoped to get it published in some working woman's mag. In fact, I've posted questions on their ideas of a perfect workplace among friends. I've even visualized the layout, etc. But this has yet to find its way to legit and something-to-talk-and-brag about print. Anyway, here's my take on what works at work.

1. No uniforms and IDs. This is an era of individuality, why do organizations seek to create identity by making clones of us wearing horrendous colors and styles? Imagine a thousand employees spread across the country being dictated on their color preferences. Don't they know one's choice of color for clothes influences work attitude and perhaps productivity?

2. Natural light. I'm not really a full-pledged environmentalist. I'm still working on it, but I have these clippings of workdesks facing a wide window providing natural light where a girl who writes something important could look outdoors and where she could grow petunias by the windowsill.

3. No airconditioning. Again, I'm all for natural or maybe I'm just in the wrong job. I want to write where its naturally breezy and where the humming I will listen to everyday is not from an old AC but from birds by a tree. Also, it would be of great help to my over-polluted sinuses.

4. No grey tabletops. I currently conduct all my business on a massive light grey table with drawers on the side and I hate it. It's such a stereotype! Manufacturers of officeware can learn a lot from Ikea or maybe they should have bought themselves a box of those 48-piece crayons.

5. Enough of blue. Same reasoning as above. Now I wonder maybe all these blue around me tells me I'm in a blue-collar job or I'm plainly blue in this blue square hole?

6. No wires jutting out of walls, floors. I'm OC, I know, but I also believe in occupational health and safety.

7. Potted plants. So my petunias would have companions by my window sill.

8. Artwalls everywhere. Because color is important at work and should be found in art around me and not in my workwear that becomes so predictable I've made acronyms of it just to be a compliant employee - GPYB, BORG, RYBG... figure what these are.

9. Freewall somewhere. Space for individuality, for creativity, for unbridled and unedited opinion-making, for both friendly and unsavory messages, for art?

10.Free-flowing coffee. For one to survive days of predictable workwear, for maintaining reason amid the boringness of everyday.