Joe McGinley, CEO Iconic Offices, explains how maximalist design enables their workspace brand to stand out in a competitive marketplace.
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.
HOK Research Report: The New Financial Workplace
HOK’s WorkPlace group has released “The New Financial Workplace,” a report that investigates the forces reshaping the financial industry and suggests how workplace design can position these companies for success.
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.
The In-Between Space: Planned Spontaneity
In-between spaces set the stage for spontaneity. Because they’re often located between other venues, they’re places where chance encounters are more likely to happen.
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.
CEO's Talk Workplace: Interview with 2U CEO Chip Pack
Our open workspace has made it easier to communicate and share ideas, have conversations on the go. The result is more innovation and idea sharing. People are not isolated behind their desks.
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.
Wellbeing in the Workplace
Besides height adjustable desks, I think one of the biggest trends we’ve seen this past year or so has to be with alternative working spaces.
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.
Watch: NT Lakis - A Law Firm Designed for a New Generation
CallisonRTKL reimagines a traditional law firm to attract the next generation of employees, while keeping a sophisticated, classic design.
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.
Watch: Remote Town Turns Convention Center into Nursing School with DIRTT
The small population and rural location of Taos, New Mexico makes building anything there expensive and difficult.
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.