A major driver of smart offices is getting people more engaged, says Sharon Turner, senior principal and director of interiors for Canada at HOK, an international architecture and design firm.
Smarter offices, happier workers
Beyond Amenities, What’s Next for Workplace Design?
At a panel discussion titled “The New Basics,” designers, developers, and facilities experts tried to work out what will be essential to the office of the future.
One-Quarter Of All U.S. Office Construction In The Past Decade Was In Texas
Texas metropolitan areas have been leading the nation in office construction and have no reason to pump the brakes on future construction projects since demand only continues to grow, a new report from CoStar says.
The theme park of modern office design
Why is it that we still feel the need to use Twentieth Century furniture when we want to express certain ideas in office design.
In An Era Of Constant Disruption, Is Your Workplace Ready To Survive And Thrive?
JLL’s Bernice Boucher offers some strategies that can help you improve agility while delivering a unique employee experience.
Even With Growing Rents, Tenant Improvements Are Eating Into Landlord Margins
Building office amenities is frequently referred to as an arms race, and it is taking an increasing toll on landlords.
Volkswagen to apply agile working at new Berlin campus
Volkswagen has opened its new ‘We Campus’ in Berlin and claims that the agile working principles used in its design will transform the working lives and output of the 900 people at the facility.
Ted Moudis Associates Releases 2019 Workplace Report
Firm’s latest Workplace Report indicates employee well-being is becoming a primary driver for tailored work environments.
Working with kids: Europe’s coworking spaces with childcare
Kids are ‘welcome’ at a just a quarter of coworking spaces and only 2% offer childcare. But times are changing.
Let’s Talk About “Wow Factor” In Workplace Design
Today's Office Occupier Must-Have: A Roof Terrace
Research by JLL and digital office broker Hubble shows a staggering 238% increase in the number of potential UK tenants listing an office roof terrace among their list of desirable amenities.
Poor office design continues to hampers productivity
Research published by Dell claims to highlight the issues related to office design holding back workers’ productivity and the impact this has on UK business.
Can ‘Pods’ Bring Quiet to the Noisy Open Office?
Now that office walls have come down, workers are ducking into closet-sized “pods” for privacy and quiet. Is this a retreat from the open office or the next phase of it?
A Turing Test for the workplace
The erosion of the demarcations between the people responsible for the built, technological and cultural workplace means that it is less important whether you are talking to somebody with a background in facilities management, HR or IT. Indeed it will become impossible to tell, and irrelevant anyway.
The biggest problem with open plan offices is how they are used
For decades the trend among workplaces has seen employees moving out of individual offices and into open plan spaces. This has not always been successful, with the open-plan approach receiving significant criticism.
NeoCon: Catching up with Neil Schneider
Visual Solutions Play Pivotal Role for Enabling Digital Transformation in the Enterprise Workspace
ViewSonic is focused on the role of visual solutions to improve collaboration, productivity and communication as the digital transformation process pervades the modern workspace from conference rooms to huddle spaces to ad hoc areas for the exchange of ideas.
5 Leading Architects Weigh in on the Future of Work
CRE Costs Force Trade-off Between Flexibility, Privacy
Since the close of an $85 million Series C funding round in 2018 and the appointment of Bryan Murphy as CEO in January, flexible workspace provider Breather has focused its offerings to address the trend toward longer-term hybrid real estate solutions that provide the flexibility of co-working with the privacy of traditional leases.
More people are working remotely, and it’s transforming office design
GitHub, Atlassian, and Basecamp—where some or most of the employees are remote—share their tips for designing offices that are good for workers, wherever they are.