It wasn’t image consciousness or architectural publicity that convinced the board of the Hodgdon Powder Company to hire an architect to design its new production facility’s administration building near Herington, Kansas. It was the employees. Tom Shepherd, the C.E.O. of the Overland Park, Kansas–based gunpowder company, says he took one look at the original proposed Butler building for the facility’s staff and he knew it would not be a pleasant place to work. “I took a little risk,” Shepherd says, noting that much of his staff initially resisted the idea of open offices. “And I learned a great deal.”
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