Today, the debate around “open” workplaces continues, but often without the nuance required for productive debate.
The Open Office Isn't Dead (Redux)
10 Tips for Success in an Open Plan
If you’ve ever worked in an airport or hotel lobby, you’ve already developed some capability to work in environments that might be noisy or distracting.
The rise of the digital workplace is transforming the physical office
Despite huge technological advances, there is, and always will, be a fundamental need for office space which stimulate human connections and interaction.
Hana Seeks to Redefine the Shared Workspace Experience
CBRE has thrown its hat into the coworking ring with Hana, a wholly owned subsidiary designed to bring turnkey temp space to a corporate occupancy looking to increase its space flexibility.
Gen-Z’s Impact on Workplace Design
Gen-Z, born between 1995 and 2012, makes up 20 percent of the United States population and will comprise 30 percent of the workforce by 2030.
How office design trends in different countries stack up and feed off each other
While they all face broadly the same challenges in managing technology, communications and economic conditions, no region produces the same results in terms of office design and working culture.
Employers Want Flexible Workplace Strategy
6 Design Tips to Keep Employees Energized
Interiors are not enough to win the war for talent
I regularly hear of people with multiple job offers taking a job with a lower salary, rather than accepting a role in a company that doesn’t reflect their ideals. This decision can be influenced by office design and facilities, career development options, corporate culture and much more.
Workplace tracking is growing fast. Most workers don’t seem very concerned
While the specter of employers widely abusing workers’ privacy looms large, it doesn’t appear to be much of a real issue in most offices, factories, and shops across the country.
Feeling appreciated and the quality of workplace both key to employee happiness
The quality of the workplace has a powerful effect on the levels of happiness of staff, with nearly half of respondents (49 percent) to a recent survey stating that having a great office environment is important to their happiness at work, but according to the figures, only a quarter (25 percent) say a good workplace environment is a current positive about their work.
How the modern office is killing our creativity
Capital One’s 2018 Work Environment Survey Results
Capital One has committed to taking workplace design to a new level, utilizing data and research to ensure that their employees can thrive in their daily work experience.
Through the Lens of Technology: Part II
Space design oftentimes is led with the aesthetic of the space-how can we make it trendy and cool? But another component that is vital to the efficiency, productivity and well-being of employees is the technology that enables those same employees to perform in their positions.
The negative entropy of workplace design and management
If you create an agile working environment and empower people to move around it and work with whom they want and in what way they want, what do you then do when the data tells you they should be working with other people and in other ways? How do you resist the descent into order?
Proceed With Caution: A Clear Understanding Of Where You Are Headed And Why
Excerpts from HOK’s upcoming whitepaper “Tech Workplace: From Frontier to Center Stage.” An investigation of the forces reshaping the tech industry and how workplace design can position companies for success.
Mobile working is a recipe for business success
Today, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the face of work as we know it: introducing AI and automation to the workplace and creating a drastic shift in the skills required by organizations today.
Why remote work isn’t going away anytime soon
A narrative has taken hold over the past few years that asserts that the future of work will be dominated by robots, AI programs, and other technological marvels that strip humans entirely away from the workplace.
Data-Driven Design: Leveraging Occupancy Evaluations To Inform And Create Effective Workspaces
U.S. WORKPLACE SURVEY 2019
Gensler’s data suggests that access to coworking directly correlates with effectiveness and experience when offered as another choice of where to work, but not a replacement for the main office.