Federal public service gets active with evolving workspaces

When Stéphanie Poliquin started her public service career in 1988 at what was then known as Public Works Canada, she said “everything was orange. And dusty, and thick.”
In an interview last fall, she recalled the days of filing cabinets almost too tall to reach, and furniture too heavy to move into different layouts when it came time for brainstorming between bureaucrats.
Now a vice-president with the Public Service Commission, Poliquin’s office is a far cry from th