Why Google-inspired offices are 'a very bad idea'

Slides and ping-pong tables have become synonymous with Google’s offices worldwide.

However, drawing inspiration from the tech giant when you design your own workplace could mean that you “infantilise your staff”, according to one office design expert.

Jeremy Myerson is the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at London’s Royal College of Art. Speaking with Dezeen, he said: “I think that the Google effect in the workplace is quite detrimental.

“Trying to treat the world as a though every organisation should be like Google is a bit of a bad idea.