Both historically and currently workplace designers and managers have sought ways to improve the flows of information and people around a building.
Workplace design and the corrective force of rediscovery
How Office Buildings Can Accommodate the New Way We Work
Staggering shift schedules or making an office accessible 24/7 seems easy enough conceptually, but they actually create quite a few problems for buildings, especially when it comes to safety and accessibility.
The End of Open-Plan Everything
For companies that make products for spaces that have suddenly fallen into disuse—restaurants, hotels, offices—pivoting to partitions has helped them continue to cut paychecks to engineers, designers, manufacturers, and salespeople.
Google employees will work from home until at least summer 2021
That makes parent company, Alphabet, the first major U.S. company to push its comeback into the second half of next year.
Research that Drives Future Innovation
With remote work becoming the new norm, many professionals in the interiors industry have raised a red flag, signaling the importance of one key missing element in the design process—collaboration.
Defensible Space: Building Community In The Post-COVID Office
Angie Lee of FXCollaborative explores how defensible spaces in the office can preserve essential personal connections.
Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All
Projects take longer. Collaboration is harder. And training new workers is a struggle. ‘This is not going to be sustainable.’
The Future Of Work Is From Anywhere, at Anytime
In the modern workplace, new technology and applications are appearing every day, enabling streamlined processes and improved productivity that boosts the bottom line.
In the new age of remote work, people under 30 might finally kill email
A new survey from Creative Strategies found that younger workers are more likely to use a unique mix of apps for collaboration.
What Is The Office For? A Look At The Changing Role Of The Workplace
Companies that use offices as “centres of gravity” and places for connection likely won’t require as much space as before. Their workplaces will become more about human experiences and collaboration rather than square footage.
Hybrid models of work will shift focus from place to purpose
A new report from Poly claims that there is a ‘granular shift’ in focus from place to purpose of work as businesses respond to the COVID-19 crisis, redesign their operations and reinvent the way they work.
Rethinking the post-pandemic workplace
Coalesse releases Relate: The Culture of Comfort and Wellbeing
Coalesse believes, now more than ever, that the four dimensions of comfort are safety’s essential companions in wellbeing at the workplace.
America’s Inescapable Offices
Workers who have already returned to their cubicle report days full of anxiety, masks, and sanitation shaming.
The Future of Work is Human
Do We Really Need The Office?
Workplace design in a new age of reason
The enduring but changing struggle to improve the working conditions and performance of people through workplace design and management has more than a whiff of the Enlightenment of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries about it.
How Technology Is Helping Reimagine The Post-Pandemic Workplace
The changes to office technology post COVID-19 will bring new features that could make our work life more efficient, productive and healthy.
