Video calling technology has been commercially available for decades. So why is it still so bad?
Flexible working is the new measure of success
Survey after survey reveals that workers – especially younger ones – are placing less value on money, and more on flexible working options. They put variety, learning opportunities, and choice as priorities at work.
This is the most dog-friendly office ever
Flexible office revolution shows no signs of slowing
In addition to the changes that the evolving flexible office model has brought for operators and occupiers JLL’s research highlighted the inevitable effect it has had on landlords and developers.
Commuter Workforce and the Power of 10+
Although we may not think about it, the workplace experience begins with the journey to work. If the commute is arduous day in and day out, it can negatively affect how we work and interact with colleagues.
Workplace Of The Future: Designing To Recruit Top Talent
nterface’s Chip DeGrace explains why companies need to design spaces that are representative of the diverse job functions that reside in a given workplace in order to recruit and retain top talent.
Airbnb offers $24 tours of its company headquarters
Visitors to Airbnb can choose from either a day-time tour or a night-time option with dinner on campus.
A just in time lesson about office design
The nascent years of new ways of working in the late 80s and early 90s coincided with a widely held but soon to be discarded belief that the Japanese had cracked management practices.
Workers go cold on hot desking
The practice of sharing workstations with fellow workers is making people increasingly unhappy, according to a survey of more than 1,000 office workers by real estate firm Savills.
These are the big challenges future workplaces pose for architects
For architects and designers, creating an office space is increasingly becoming about more than rows of desks and access to natural light. Greater understanding of our mental and physical wellbeing and the impact on our performance is affecting how spaces are conceived and designed – and the global attention now on the threat of climate change means the construction industry are reckoning with the impact the industry is having.
The Next Big Thing Isn’t For You
Over half of US workers offered flexible Fridays
This summer, over half (55 percent) of US employers will offer employees the option to leave work early on Fridays or take the entire day off.
Coworking is reshaping office design
The principles behind this complex situation have been known to us for a long time, at least since the 1970s when Frank Duffy first introduced the world to his ideas about the physical and temporal layers of the building – in his terminology the ‘shell, services, scenery and sets’ which anticipates Stewart Brand’s own take on the interplay of building layers.
Watch: New Research: The Tech Workplace Takes Center Stage
HOK’s Workplace group has just released their annual report which explores a crucial issue in workplace and interior design. “HOK Forward: Tech Workplace Takes Center Stage” investigates the distinct threats and challenges facing the tech sector and how these same challenges are affecting all companies, regardless of the industry in which they operate.
Connecting People To Nature Within The Corporate Office
How can leaders create the positive effects of nature within the urban environments in which reside many of the leading global businesses?
The latest amenity at Apple, Nike, and Goldman Sachs? Luxury lockers
Rather than just retailing a catalog of mix-and-match prefab storage boxes (although they do that, too), Hollman brands itself as a high-end interior architecture designer that creates bespoke, commissioned solutions that fit individual clients’ needs.
How to create a dynamic workspace to drive performance
A number of recent studies have highlighted how the design of an office can either impede or boost employee relationships and output – and it’s not hard to understand why.
Flexible working may not enhance productivity
The study suggests that changing office environments and flexible working practices are not improving employees’ relationships with co-workers, or their creativity and output.
In defence of open plan office design
Noisy, distracting, toxic and disastrous. These are just a few words that have been used to describe open plan office layouts.
Come for the rent, stay for the experience of coworking
It is clear evidence that a phenomenon that was catalysed by its ability to a provide flexible and attractive accommodation for start-ups and freelancers in the expensive tech and creative hubs of globalised cities is now a core element of real estate strategy for a much wider range of organisational types.