Organizations are attracting the best talent by creating workplaces that boost innovation with great work experiences.
Giving Talent What They Want
‘The Next Chapter in the Evolution of the Open Workplace’
Designers are adding elements like walls on wheels and movable pods into office spaces to provide more flexibility.
The Screen-Centric Future Workplace
Workplace design has always strived to be human-centered. However, as technology and computing are becoming a central part of workplaces, getting deeper information about how technologies are getting integrated into work may help shed new light on how people really work.
Workers want offices that inspire themselves and others
The survey of 1,000 UK office workers also claims that employees are conscious of how their office looks on social media.
Supporting Coworkers’ Well-Being In The Gig Economy
I’ve been designing offices for decades. Here’s what I got wrong
Verda Alexander questions the cushy, amenity-laden offices that her interior design firm helped pioneer. The way forward, she argues, is to introduce a little friction into the workplace.
Smarter offices, happier workers
A major driver of smart offices is getting people more engaged, says Sharon Turner, senior principal and director of interiors for Canada at HOK, an international architecture and design firm.
Volkswagen to apply agile working at new Berlin campus
Volkswagen has opened its new ‘We Campus’ in Berlin and claims that the agile working principles used in its design will transform the working lives and output of the 900 people at the facility.
Working with kids: Europe’s coworking spaces with childcare
Kids are ‘welcome’ at a just a quarter of coworking spaces and only 2% offer childcare. But times are changing.
Poor office design continues to hampers productivity
Research published by Dell claims to highlight the issues related to office design holding back workers’ productivity and the impact this has on UK business.
Can ‘Pods’ Bring Quiet to the Noisy Open Office?
Now that office walls have come down, workers are ducking into closet-sized “pods” for privacy and quiet. Is this a retreat from the open office or the next phase of it?
A Turing Test for the workplace
The erosion of the demarcations between the people responsible for the built, technological and cultural workplace means that it is less important whether you are talking to somebody with a background in facilities management, HR or IT. Indeed it will become impossible to tell, and irrelevant anyway.
The biggest problem with open plan offices is how they are used
For decades the trend among workplaces has seen employees moving out of individual offices and into open plan spaces. This has not always been successful, with the open-plan approach receiving significant criticism.
NeoCon: Catching up with Neil Schneider
5 Leading Architects Weigh in on the Future of Work
CRE Costs Force Trade-off Between Flexibility, Privacy
Since the close of an $85 million Series C funding round in 2018 and the appointment of Bryan Murphy as CEO in January, flexible workspace provider Breather has focused its offerings to address the trend toward longer-term hybrid real estate solutions that provide the flexibility of co-working with the privacy of traditional leases.
More people are working remotely, and it’s transforming office design
GitHub, Atlassian, and Basecamp—where some or most of the employees are remote—share their tips for designing offices that are good for workers, wherever they are.
Remote meetings
Flexible working is the new measure of success
Survey after survey reveals that workers – especially younger ones – are placing less value on money, and more on flexible working options. They put variety, learning opportunities, and choice as priorities at work.
