A Phenomenological Analysis of the Posthumanized Future Workplace

For a growing number of organizations, the adoption of emerging technologies for social robotics, advanced AI, virtual reality, neurocybernetics, and ubiquitous computing is resulting in an increasing “technological posthumanization” of such organizations’ business models and workforces. Here we employ approaches from phenomenological aesthetics to anticipate and analyze ways in which such forces of posthumanization can be expected to transform the architectural structure of the workplace, rendering many traditional anthropocentric assumptions about the workplace obsolete.