Co-founder of ROOM, Morten Meisner-Jensen, outlines the key workplace trends for the year ahead.
'Collaborative Space' Is Still Office's Future — Just Not Where You Work
Open offices have lost their luster, but the principles they embodied — places to interact spontaneously and an abundance of natural light and air — are still key elements of the next generation of offices.
Flexible working and always on culture have a negative effect on families
The 2020 Modern Families Index claims that while over half of parents are working flexibly, badly designed jobs have left many parents struggling to cope with the competing demands of home and the workplace.
Playmobil’s Plan to Infiltrate Your Workplace
Not content to have shaped your childhood, the company now wants its toys to shape your corporate life. Should you play along?
One man’s obsessive, 40-year pursuit of the productive life
Stephen Wolfram has always liked using technology to get stuff done and monitor personal progress. Here are the secrets that help him power through his workdays.
ONE ARCHITECT’S RADICAL VISION TO REPLACE THE OPEN OFFICE
Under construction in Oklahoma, David Dewane’s ‘eudaimonia machine’ divides the workplace into strict zones; cleanse yourself with a shower before entering a deep-work chamber.
The Evolving Workplace: Nature And Community For Employee Wellbeing
Wellbeing: Core to 2020 Office Design Implications
The war for talent. Digital transformation. Sustainability. Three macro forces are driving dramatic change in the workplace evidenced by design implications for the coming year.
Supporting Agile at Bosch Software Innovations
Steelcase Applied Research + Consulting collaborates with Bosch Software Innovations to imagine a workplace that supports agile work.
4 Digital Trends Affecting the Future of Work
Q+A: Leesman Index's Peggie Rothe on Open Plan Offices' Bad Reputation
The think tank's largest post-occupancy study of new and refurbished workplaces shows that open plans and flexible workstations might be underestimated.
Gen Z Workers Don’t Find Open Offices Productive
Gen Z workers are competitive, independent and drawn to private workspaces rather than the open office layouts that have recently grown in popularity, and value in-person communication via breakout rooms.
How 2020’s latest office design trend will change teamwork forever
Because productivity is a direct result of an efficient workspace, the conversation around the office space is relevant to employees everywhere.
Workplace Engagement Starts With an Experiential Workplace Culture
A principal change in the American workplace over the past decade is the realization that the environment in which one works is nearly as important as the job itself.
Politics Has Failed Mothers. Can Design Help?
Designers, curators, and entrepreneurs are scrambling to make sense of motherhood in a culture that’s often hostile to it.
Do new workplaces work?
Peggie Rothe, development director at Leesman, questions if change in the office really is for the better.
Finding Focus
Will automation and remote working lead to ways of socializing?
Remote working is a huge force in the modern economy, but do we really understand where it will take us?
Essential tools for today’s digital nomad
Why do workers like open offices?
Could there be anything less surprising in the built environment media world than another article pointing out the flaws of the open office workplace layout?