While open office working seems like the perfect way to encourage collaboration and improve communication between your employees, in reality, it can be a drain on staff productivity.
5 TIPS TO IMPROVE OPEN OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY
6 Huge Ways Your Workplace Could Change In 2016
The last year saw dramatic changes for workers and their employers, and as 2016 nears, it looks full of even more big issues that could fundamentally change how Americans work.
4 predictions about nontraditional workplace perks
Workplace benefits are steadily becoming more employee-driven and unconventional. Dare I say that matching 401(k)s and robust benefits packages, with medical, life insurance and disability, are so 2014.
DEBATE: SHOULD WE ALL HAVE CLEAR DESKS?
When it comes to clear desk policies, LEGO’s London office is trialling something more extreme than banning piles of paper. The toy brand has removed the notion of employees having their own desks and managers working in offices and instead is experimenting with the concept of ‘activity-based working’.
6 Things I Learned After Switching to a Standing Desk
One of my biggest goals for 2016, outside of growing my company, involves improving my health. Rather than wait until New Year's to make an official resolution, I've started early: As part of my personal fitness journey, which includes a strict diet and workout schedule, I 've purchased a new standing desk.
20 Reasons to Let Your Employees Work From Home
I’ve been a big fan of working from home over the years. Even though I go to the office on an almost-daily basis, I find that when I work from home I’m able to get a lot more accomplished. As I research this for my company as a possible option, I find that there are a lot of reasons why it’s good for a business to let employees work from home.
Does Wellness Translate Across Culture?
The word wellness can be loosely translated into Chinese as 养生 (yǎng shēng), which literally means “nurturing life.” It implies a very gentle, well-rounded approach to a wholesome lifestyle. It calls to mind a sexagenarian doing tai chi at dawn or sipping herbal tea in the afternoon.
“It’s not a perfect translation,” said Cathy Gu, a Gensler design strategist in Shanghai. Because while the pursuit of longevity has a long standing tradition in China, workplace wellness is just starting to gain traction. “This is why we’re doing the research, because there isn’t a perfect translation,” said Keiko Toishi, a practice area leader for health and wellness. The two are part of a design strategy team in Shanghai dedicated to translating the wealth of knowledge in Gensler’s Workplace Performance Index for the Chinese market.
THE FOUR TRENDS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK BY 2021
In some ways, 2015 was the year of the gig economy, with the scale and diversity of the freelance workforce not just expanding, but attracting more mainstream notice as well. By our own recent estimates here at Upwork, some 54 million Americans are now freelancers. Still, that's just the most noticeable trend among several that will reshape the nature of work in the next five years. In fact, shifts in technology, connectivity, and the expectations of both employers and employees are on track to bring about bigger changes than the freelance economy can on its own.
Stephen Bevan: we still don't trust people to work flexibly
The prevailing culture of most workplaces is still not ready to trust people to work out of sight
Leaving home for work and arriving back in darkness is a common experience for commuters at this time of year. The train carriages on wet winter mornings are often full of people who look bleary-eyed, haunted and silently resigned to the ordeal of public transport. And all this before they even get to the office.
Airbnb was just voted the #1 best place to work
Bike Commuting Is On the Rise. Is Your Office Ready?
Over 900,000 people in the United States rode bicycles to work in 2014. This fact and other data collected by the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) show that the number of workers commuting to work by bicycle in the US grew 62% from 2000 to 2014, making cycling the fastest-growing commute mode in the United States. In light of this change, particularly in the nation’s 50 largest cities, landlords need to reassess the facilities they offer; failing to do so can mean the loss of valuable new talent.
Should Landlords Worry About the Gig Economy?
By some accounts, the gig economy is taking off—to the point that by 2020, about 40% of Americans will be part of it. Should office landlords be concerned that this trend will have a cataclysmic negative impact on demand for office space? I don’t think so, and here’s why.
The World According to WeWork
Developers and investors are quietly rushing in, spending millions to get in on the city’s next real estate frontier.
Does the Future of the Office Lie in Agile Workspaces?
Due to the proliferation of the Internet-related technologies such as portable smart devices, as well as increasingly flexible attitudes toward the nature of remunerated employment when it comes to hours, physical location and trends such as activity-based working, demand for agile workspaces is on the increase.
7 Expert Tips on Finding the Perfect Office Space For Your Startup
Congratulations. Your startup has hit a growth spurt. You’re generating revenue, you’ve hired your first employees and the garage is no longer cutting it as HQ. It's time to upgrade to an actual office.
The Future of Workspace Is Here
Over the past few year's the rise and ever growing interest in co-working has transformed the way solopreneurs, freelancers and small companies do business in Australia. It has become a true microcosm of a new way of working and, perhaps more importantly, living in Australia. Given the intense interest in start-ups these days, more and more entrepreneurs are looking to co-working facilities to grab cost effective and flexible office space and get amongst other budding entrepreneurs.
WeWork announces latest plans to dominate London’s commercial property scene
Coworking giant WeWork has announced three new deals as it seeks to become the major player in London’s commercial property market. The firm, founded by Adam Neumann in New York in 2010, has made no secret of its plans for London as we reported earlier this year. The office space provider already has six London locations which it lets out to members (not tenants) who have access to the network of 57 locations in 17 countries on flexible terms via an app. According to a report published this week in Estates Gazette it is now set to add another 1 million sq. ft. to its portfolio in the capital with locations on City Road, Waterhouse Square and Docklands.
In the Age of Loneliness, Connections at Work Matter
Loneliness is a feeling we’d all like to avoid. Research shows it’s terrible for our health; it diminishes cognitive performance and the immune system, increases the risk of heart disease and dementia and hastens early death. And the psychological effects are just as bad; studies show that people need strong social connections to feel happy and find meaning in their lives, and that many of us would actually rather receive mild electroshocks than be alone.
Ember Mug : Smart Coffee Mug Where You Can Keep Your Coffee at A Consistent Temperature
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