Framing used to open Amelia Walter-Dzikowska's talk: 'global' and 'village' are almost opposites (global = worldwide, village = small homogeneous community with shared customs/language). Corporations try to build global offices by shipping identical furniture, architecture and style across countries (an IKEA-like chain-store analogy), but identical interiors are only a facade — the office only becomes genuinely global when time zones, schedules, cultural values and communication norms are actively accounted for.