Understanding evolving workforce expectations
The first key finding suggests that employees are longing for purposeful and visible changes to increase safety measures in the office.
The first key finding suggests that employees are longing for purposeful and visible changes to increase safety measures in the office.
We are now deep enough into the work-from-home experiment that, beyond speculation, we have data about what happens when we work remotely en masse — what we gain and what we lose when we are out of the office.
Take a look at the first results of ThinkLab’s Industry Impact Survey, which is generating data to help designers and design manufacturers move forward during these challenging times.
Workplace data is bringing customized insights into how companies can best keep their employees safe as offices reopen their doors.
Designers, clients, and researchers at a Think Tank hosted by Ennead Architects explained how information gathered from many different sources can improve the workplace experience.
Everyone will return to a workplace changed in some way, though expectations will be different from person to person, and could create new tensions across generations at work.
Also, 13% of respondents noted they had already made cost reductions in real estate expenses, with another 9% planning to take actions in this area in the coming months.
95 percent of audio end-users and decision makers experience problems relating to sound that affect their concentration or efficiency at work.
The more choices people have in where to work, the more important it is to understand their work preferences.
Providing the right suite of alternative work spaces or amenities can make a big difference in addressing struggles associated with unassigned seating, such as finding private places to work and take phone calls.
The reviews are mixed: many workers in unassigned seating want their seat back, while many are happy with the scenario.
The think tank's largest post-occupancy study of new and refurbished workplaces shows that open plans and flexible workstations might be underestimated.
A joint-research from Gensler and the British Council of Offices (BCO) on the rise of flexible workspace in the UK corporate sector has uncovered that 40% of flexible space users would rather work from a conventional office, prompting questions about the viability of the flexible space solutions as it currently stands.
The gig economy in the US is growing exponentially, and with projections of freelancers making up almost half of the US workforce by 2027, employers are keen on engaging this talent pool.
In the latest report from Density, more than 10,000 hours of meeting room data were analyzed—generated by their sensor platform—to explore how wrong-sized meeting rooms cost workplaces millions of dollars every year.