It is rare that those with a hand in designing and creating workspaces spend enough time with occupants to understand their needs.
Getting a Customer’s Perspective
How Workplaces Are Building Community Hubs From The Inside Out
When a workplace is designed to be a hub of inspiration, connection, creativity and energy, there’s no doubt that innovation will follow.
Reversing the rural brain drain with remote working
With a new network of rural tech hubs, the Rural Innovation Initiative wants to kickstart small downtowns.
Design 2019: the Human Experience
User optimization at the personal level is readily becoming a key concept throughout all aspects of design and across vertical markets.
Workers Prioritize Work-Life Flexibility Over the Latest Office Design Trends—But Employers Aren’t Keeping Up
Why is it so hard to design a decent office space?
There are now 5 generations in the workforce–can they work together?
Successful organizations view their multigenerational workforce not as a bane, but as a blessing. It is imperative, not just for individual organizations but for the entire working world, to embrace the benefits of an age-diverse workforce.
Employees think Internet of Things will be most important workplace technology trend
The poll suggests that employees think that the Internet of Things will have the biggest impact on their day to day working lives followed by voice activated technologies and wireless charging.
Avoid The Bait And Switch: How To Leverage Place In Attracting Top Talent
Listen: Why Are Some Workspaces Busy & Others Sit Empty?
In this episode, we diagnose what goes into creating a good workspace away from the traditional desk
The benefits of art in commercial offices
Art can take all sorts of forms in the digital age and has proven effects on people's engagement with a space.
Paperworld: 2019 How 'Activating' a Space Leads to Greater Collaboration
At Paperworld’s Future Office conference in Germany, speakers discussed how the modern workplace must strike a balance between function and emotion.
The Biggest Thing Helping Office Real Estate Grow Is Fear Of Loneliness
The future of work and the workplace are a constant source of debate in real estate, because this will shape the future of offices, one of the two largest property sectors.
The Nova pod is a solar-powered co-working office on wheels
The Nova mobile office pod supports the flexible working needs of the modern nomad with fast wifi, a minibar and a daily changing view.
Your open office is causing your coworkers to judge you more harshly
We are naturally inclined to judge each other, and open offices magnify it. Here’s what we are judging each other for, and what we can do to counter it.
Video: The Life-Changing Magic Of Having Marie Kondo Organize Your Office
Marie Kondo, star of the new Netflix show "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" and author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” stops by Fast Company HQ in New York City to salvage a desk disaster.
Five Ideas That Align Facilities And Human Resources To Strengthen Your Organization
How FM and HR professionals can make strategic decisions together to strengthen the workplace experience for all employees.
Balancing Technology Privacy Concerns with Benefits
The Art And Science Behind Flexible Work Trends
No place or space is off limits in the world of flexible work — especially for organizations embracing this trend that is at the heart of the future of work.
Everyone hates open offices. Here’s why they still exist
That is the myth of the open office, a workplace layout so pervasive that its presence is taken for granted, and its promises–of collaboration and innovation–are sacrosanct.