Organizations should be supplying employees with choices — in both their digital and physical workplaces — to support multiple working styles and collaboration needs.
Digital Workplaces Shouldn't Be One Size Fits All
Why Amazon built its workers a mini rain forest inside three domes in downtown Seattle
The striking architecture, designed by the firm NBBJ, includes more than 620 tons of steel and 2,643 panes of glass and no enclosed offices, desks or conference rooms.
Financial companies learning to better utilise office space to attract right talent
How Tech Giants Are Keeping Employees Happy Through Innovative Workspaces
Collaborative workspaces strengthen meaningful relationships that keep people connected to their jobs.
These are the states where the most people work from home
FlexJobs found that 3.9 million U.S. employees (2.9% of the total U.S. workforce) work from home at least half of the time, up from 1.8 million in 2005.
The Millennial Arrival And The Evolution Of The Modern Workplace
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that millennials prefer work-life integration as opposed to work-life balance.
Watch: Well-being Works
Does your workplace support well-being? Using a “man-on-the-street” approach, we talked to everyday people about their work environment and explore the many design elements—from access to natural light and clean air to amenities—that impact our health and happiness.
This Is What Remote Workers Need Most From Their Bosses
The future of work is working remotely. Here are seven traits managers should adopt if they want to keep top talent.
EGD in 2018: Good Design is About People
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.
Americans see both good and bad in trends that are changing the workplace
Among the trends reshaping the U.S. workplace, more Americans see outsourcing of jobs, more immigrant workers and imports as negative rather than positive forces when it comes to their livelihoods, according to a Pew Research Center surveyconducted in August and September 2017.
A Holistic Approach To Workplace Design
Workplace design is being approached more holistically; how the actual workplace intertwiners with the website, the graphics of the space, the brand’s identity, etc. The expectations about design are very different today than those just 8 years ago.
Wonky desks, giant fig trees and mindfulness classes: is this the office of the future?
Beyond the designer interiors and the domestic atmosphere, what’s particularly striking about Second Home is the precisely engineered nature of the community and the opportunities it has spawned.
5 Tips for Adopting Collegiate Design in the Office
The newest generation of employees pose different challenges to recruiters. Millennials and Generation Z, who are just now entering the workforce, are vocal about their workplace priorities.
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.
FUTURE Designs looks at what really contributes to wellbeing in the workplace
How Microsoft Canada approaches workplace collaboration
The ideal collaborative environment often changes as employees age, but with five generations sharing Microsoft Canada’s office, human resources vice president Cherise Mendoza considers it a professional obligation to provide all of them.
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.
Telling Stories and Living them: Corporate Celebrations with Impact
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.