Businesses are finding ways to guarantee flexible office space early as speed becomes top priority.
Flex-Space Is Changing the Way Commercial Real Estate Thinks About Occupancy
Building owners across the U.S. are developing solutions that allow them to capture the growing demand for flexible space.
Healthcare Advancements That Will Redefine Office Design In 2020 And Beyond
There’s a major shift coming in the future of healthcare. Jennifer Walton and Susan Dwyer of H. Hendy Associates ask how will all this impact the corporate office?
Office design should take account of the quality of interactions as well as quantity
Ever since technology first made it possible for people to work remotely from their colleagues, there has been speculation not only that office design should change but even that the physical office could be dispensed with entirely, and with it the idea that people should come together to work in the same place at the same time to achieve common goals and to share in a common identity.
Sleeping on the job is now acceptable behaviour
While employees are clearly keen to catch up on and improve their sleeping habits, they also need a helping hand to do this. That’s where you as an employer can step in.
Why companies are crowdsourcing office decisions
Firms are seeing the value in employee feedback as they leverage commercial real estate as an HR strategy.
The Importance of Collaboration Technology to Workplace Culture
In 2019, there are four main strands of technology that are essential to developing a successful culture of collaboration in the workplace.
How Open Is Too Open for Your Office?
Climate change means green offices need to become the norm
Priorities in workplace design can sometimes get misplaced. How else can we explain why sustainability has almost fallen off the corporate workplace radar in recent times?
Climate Change Solutions for Workplace Design
Buildings contribute 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. We have an opportunity to make a big impact.
The open-plan office isn't the enemy - it's how we use it that matters
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.
Giving Talent What They Want
Organizations are attracting the best talent by creating workplaces that boost innovation with great work experiences.
Pause For Thought: Big Corporates Are Using Sensors To Drastically Cut Office Space
Office owners take notice: The use of sensors and data is allowing big companies to reduce their office space by as much as a third.
‘The Next Chapter in the Evolution of the Open Workplace’
Designers are adding elements like walls on wheels and movable pods into office spaces to provide more flexibility.
The Screen-Centric Future Workplace
Workplace design has always strived to be human-centered. However, as technology and computing are becoming a central part of workplaces, getting deeper information about how technologies are getting integrated into work may help shed new light on how people really work.
Workers want offices that inspire themselves and others
The survey of 1,000 UK office workers also claims that employees are conscious of how their office looks on social media.
Supporting Coworkers’ Well-Being In The Gig Economy
Podcast - The Battle for Office Design: Functionality vs Aesthetics
LINcast host Gabe Duverge is joined by Ramsey Madsen of MTRL live from NeoCon 2019. The pair discussed the prescient challenge of balancing aesthetics with functionality in office design and how Madsen strives to do so in his work for some of the world's biggest brands.
The scale of the problem for workplace design
The link between scale, size and form is also, unsurprisingly, evident in the built environment and in workplace design.
I’ve been designing offices for decades. Here’s what I got wrong
Verda Alexander questions the cushy, amenity-laden offices that her interior design firm helped pioneer. The way forward, she argues, is to introduce a little friction into the workplace.