The plan below shows a typical American and Japanese office. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The maps illustrate arrangements of typical offices in Japan and the US.
Overall, there are significant differences about positions of personnel and functional facilities. Additionally, while there are many specific areas such as Conference Room or Storage in a typical American office, a typical Japanese office does not have.
While white-collar workers in Japanese offices gather in groups of six people, those in America are evenly separated in the middle of the room. Besides, there is a distinction about the way managers arranged between two countries. In Japan, each section manager locates in front of a group of workers and behind the position of department manager, compared with arrangement of managers’ area in the US that is completely in the right of personnel.
On the other hand, there are functional locations in the US offices included Printer, Copier, Storage and Conference Room, whereas Japanese offices have no. While offices in America have two windows on the left and right sides, there is only one large window behind the department manager’s position in the Japanese offices.
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