When it comes to employee retention, the building itself can play a huge role in enticing people to stay. Workers
Certified Green Buildings Linked To Healthier, Happier, More Productive Employees
Perennials, not millennials, will trigger the next wave of talent retention efforts
In the 30-year span from 1994 to 2024, workers aged 55 and older will go from being the smallest segment of the US working population to the largest, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Designing The Awe-Factor: How To Create Workplaces That Evoke Emotions
How to create an aesthetic “wow” factor that inspires creativity, attracts new employees, and supports retention.
The Office As A Clubhouse
How the modern office has transformed from a siloed environment to an amenity space, acting as an enticing venue for employee activities, benefits, and interactions.
The growing urbanization of work and workplaces
What becomes apparent in both is that the most interesting aspects of human interactions take place in ritualized and predictable forms and that the best spaces can foster those interactions.
In open office hell? This company will sell you a safe haven
Kettal, a furniture company based in Barcelona, Spain, has focused on outdoor furnishings since 1996. But the company’s latest collection puts its 22 years of experience in organizing outdoor spaces to good use indoors–fixing the hell that is the open plan office, which reduces productivity, enforces sexism, and alienates workers, just so companies can save money on real estate.
Meet The Man Landlords Are Calling To Make Their Office Schemes Innovative And Edgy
Finding the Goldilocks Point for workplace design
One of the great paradoxes of modern life is the ever increasing likelihood of breakdowns in communication in a world in which we have more ways to talk to each other than ever before.
How Europe’s cities are embracing flexible space
For growing numbers of employees across Europe’s big cities, heading into the office no longer entails sitting at the same desk, next to the same colleagues each day.
How apps are adding value to the digitally-driven workplace
People spend at least two hours a day using apps. But so far this US$1.3 trillion market has barely serviced the place they spend most of their waking hours: the workplace. That’s starting to change.
How the Millennial generation is ushering in a more open and connected workspace
Customer-First Design: Learning From Hospitality, Education, And Retail
An office is not the only place work gets done. Any space that generates value is a workplace, and the nature of that environment shapes the experiences of the people who use it.
Work Socially or Socially Working?
Two new studies set out business case for contemporary office design
A consistent theme throughout the research was a desire amongst office workers for more informal spaces for working and collaborating, and also private spaces for concentrating and taking telephone calls.
Majority of office workers discontented with workplace environment
With three-quarters (76 percent) of office workers agreeing that a well-functioning and attractive office workplace would encourage better staff retention, the study demonstrates a link between the office workspace, the people in it, and their inclination to stay put.
Are you ready for the world of agile working we will experience in the 2020s?
Agile Working is more than a project it is a cultural journey involving continuing change to achieve continuous improvement. Agile Working is moving on.
Do we need a digitally enabled workplace?
Wearable tech is less effective in motivating the older workforce – perhaps what we need is a digitally enabled workplace that supports us as we age.
Here are some dread-inducing statistics on open plan offices
Do people really care about working in offices with social events and perks like cold brew taps and ping-pong tables?
News Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia For Split HQ2
After more than a year of aggressive competition, bets and speculation, the arms race for Amazon's second headquarters is reportedly over.
EQ Office CEO: Amazon HQ2 Will Become 'HQmany'
Amazon has ambitious plans in just about every industry from retail, robotics, logistics and pharmaceuticals.