Like it or not, workspace design betrays a company’s culture. It also has the power to shape it.
A new company is taking remote work’s flexibility to the extreme
How to Make Sure People Won’t Hate Your New Open Office Plan
Despite optimistic assertions about the benefits of open office space, outcomes are mixed. In some cases, open-plan office designs are reported to increase collaboration, employee satisfaction, and communication, but in others these new spaces are criticized for creating distractions, reducing privacy and autonomy, and undermining employee motivation and satisfaction.
Unlimited holidays and golden hellos: how modern workplaces attract talent
Millennials have brought a different perspective to the workplace – gone are the days when all employees looked for was a decent wage. So what does a good workplace look like in 2018?
What Workers Want
Why are people migrating away from their desks? What kinds of spaces are they looking for? Is it as simple as adding some sofas and a barista bar to give people the kind of workplace they want?
SMEs spend more time searching for private offices than coworking space
Searches for private offices have become more popular than coworking space among SMEs over the past year, according to new data from commercial property marketplace Hubble.
The Elemental Workplace
In light of his new book release on 1 March, Neil Usher uncovers the essential framework for what makes a fantastic workplace.
What Working In A Dark Office May Do To Your Brain
“Dim lights are producing dimwits,” remarks one researcher studying the connection between light and mental acuity.
Six Ways to Support Agile Teams
It wasn’t too long ago CEOs spent days with their executive team to devise a five-year plan worthy of Wall Street. Today, five years is an eternity.
High-Tech’s Influence On Office Interior Design
Building and office design is changing from the ground up, from how we manage our HVAC systems to how our employees collaborate and work, Tangram Interiors’ Amanda Pierce tells GlobeSt.com.
Gensler’s Carlos Martínez On the Importance of Designing Workplace “Beta Spaces”
Martínez, a consumer-goods practice-area leader at Gensler, chats with Metropolis editor-in-chief, Avinash Rajagopal, about not being afraid to experiment in office design.
Workers prize standard of technology over latest office design when moving jobs
Over half of UK workers (53 percent) say that the standard of technology is a key consideration for accepting a new job role and more than 1 in 3 (37 percent) would decline a job based on poor hardware alone, claims a new survey.
Coworking or work from home?
A Seat at the Table: How Millennials are Changing the Design of Dining
Faced with consumers who value authenticity, quality, and storytelling, designers have to think about the full user journey, which starts before a customer enters and continues after they leave.
The horrors and harmonies of workplace hierarchy
So how do we change hierarchy if we wanted to? The psychological perspective offers a fairly grim outlook to our ability to shift from embedded hierarchies.
We still display status in office design, but in a completely new and subtle way
As for the private office, it’s telling that Mark Zuckerberg famously works in a large open plan office at the company’s new headquarters.
US workers increasingly prioritise flexible working and personal development over status
A growing number of professionals are also keen on developing side projects away from work that they believe are more closely aligned with their personality and interests, according to the study of 2,000 people.
People who work in an open plan office feel worse and are less satisfied
The more co-workers that share of a workplace, the less satisfied employees are, and the more difficult they think it is to work collaboratively.
Strategy in 2018: Here Comes GenZ!
GenZ cannot remember a time when the internet wasn’t ubiquitous and have grown up with smart phones as the technological and cultural norm.
CBRE Furniture Forum - What's Next?
A year of hard work culminated with the final CBRE Furniture Forum in Chicago this past November, and left us wondering: what’s next for CBRE’s Julie Deignan and Contract Consulting Group’s Amanda Schneider?