The corporate office has quietly changed its job description. It is no longer just somewhere to put desks and chairs; it has become part of how a company presents itself — to staff, to clients, and to itself.
Walk through the newer office towers in Lagos or Abuja and the shift is hard to miss. The solid block walls and beige drywall of the last decade are giving way to glass: open floors, long sightlines, meeting rooms you can see into but, ideally, not hear through.
It is an aesthetic borrowed from tech campuses abroad, and across Nigerian business districts it has become shorthand for a company that has arrived.
What the polished photographs rarely show is how often these installations disappoint the people who paid for them.
The frameless trap
For years, achieving that clean, frameless look in a Nigerian office came down to two unappealing options. A business
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