When I became CEO, my first priority was to accelerate decision making and innovation within our company.
Jim Keane: How a CEO’s Office can Help Foster Innovation
Uniqlo Is Rethinking Japanese Work Culture–Through Office Design
Designed by Allied Works Architecture, the new headquarters of Fast Retailing–Uniqlo’s parent company–features open-plan office spaces, lounges done up with plants to resemble outdoor gardens, a library filled with books and magazines from around the world, and a room with stadium seating where all 1,200 employees can gather for company functions. While it bears the hallmarks of what we expect creative offices to look like in the West, it’s actually a first for corporate Japan.
Do It For The ‘Gram: How Instagram is Changing the Design Industry
The digital and physical worlds are colliding. How will social media platforms influence the way we design spaces?
A Year-Long Study Says Recent Graduates Want Offices Designed Like This
If your employees are stuck in assigned workspaces and can't control how they work, get ready to disassemble the cubicles.
The Hardest Working Office Design In America Encrypts Your Data–With Lava Lamps
When you walk into the San Francisco office of the cloud network and security firm Cloudflare, you’re greeted by a receptionist–and a giant wall of 100 lava lamps. It isn’t just a throwback to the 1960s. The lava lamps act as a random number generator, helping to encrypt the requests that go through Cloudflare, which make up 10% of all internet requests.
Despite the rise of remote work, the symbolic importance of offices will live on
For centuries people have been getting up, joining a daily commute or retreating to a room, to work. The office has become inseparable from work.Its history illustrates not only how our work has changed but also how work’s physical spaces respond to cultural, technological, and social forces.
Listen: Driving the Wellbeing of People
Offices would be better places to work if they were more like cars. New car models are embedded with technologies that make driving easier, safer and more fun. Sensors tell drivers if there is a truck in their blind spot or if they are about to back into another car when parking. Some cars allow drivers to safely take their hands off the wheel. Many are Wi-Fi enabled. The car doesn’t just provide transportation anymore—it actually helps people be better drivers.
What Does a Page 1 Room Look Like When Page 1 Isn’t on the Agenda?
Dean Baquet, the executive editor, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, have announced that a central newsroom meeting space will open this year as part of the renovation of our headquarters. They called it the “new Page 1 room.”
Mobilizing the Workplace to Attract and Retain Employees
Today’s unprecedented talent shortage is compelling businesses and other organizations to get serious about employee attraction and retention. The current war for talent is amplified by a strong economy and a growing number of Baby Boomers nearing retirement age. In Nebraska, for example, more than 65 percent of state government employees are expected to retire in the next five years. Many private-sector businesses are experiencing similar human-resource challenges.
Does Co-Working Affect Company Culture?
The reality is that today, there are enough flexible office options to supply the needs of every kind of company, whether it wants flexibility or networking.
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
To borrow a phrase from my youth, I think, “the kids are alright.” This young, maturing generation is made up of passionate, purposeful and highly intelligent men and women who are not just tech literate, but tech natives who are wonderfully equipped to make good use of the most innovative technologies
Is 7000 Central Park in Atlanta A Next-Gen Office Prototype?
CBRE recently unveiled plans to energize the 7000 Central Park workplace with major renovations that call for coworking spaces, special events and entertainment options. Could this be a next-gen office prototype?
Disruptive Trends Reshaping Office Dynamics
“The world is transitioning into a more distributed, automated and digital economy, which impacts how occupiers conduct business and think about their workplaces,” says Mark E. Rose at Avison Young.
How workplace design shapes and reflects organizational hierarchies
The roots of the open plan office can be traced back to the 1960s when post-capitalism was beginning to emerge as a political and intellectual movement. The social and political upheaval that followed World War Two and the emphasis on the autonomous, motivated and engaged worker combined to inspire designers and architects to develop a new and more “modern” way of working.
How the office lobby speaks volumes
A well-designed lobby welcomes visitors and guides them to the next stage of their journey, she explains. The use of décor, color schemes, furnishings, and ambient music should blend to communicate an immersive expression of the brand
6 HOT INTERIOR DESIGN TRENDS WE'VE SEEN IN 2017
When you're investing in an office redesign, you want more than a fresh coat of paint: you want to improve the space and how your employees, customers and visitors experience it. The desire to improve your experience of a space is one of the driving forces behind this year's hottest interior design trends.
Millennial Workers Are Behind These 4 Salient Office Trends
As millennials become increasingly prominent in corporations’ influential leadership roles, the preferences of young workers for urban and creative office space is driving a reconsideration and renovation of offices.
MAKE ROOM FOR ‘ALONE TIME’ AT WORK
When do you most need “quiet time” at work—time and space free from distractions and interruptions?It’s safe to say that for most knowledge workers, it’s when they’re on deadline and under pressure. A major project milestone is approaching or a proposal is due. The timeline is tight. People need time to pause, sort through problems, organize their thoughts, concentrate and crank out their best work.
Space for inspiration
What does the optimum workspace in which to do creative work look like? That’s what Creative Review magazine set out to discover when it surveyed readers of its website as part of a major new report sponsored by British Land, called Working Well: Wellbeing in the Creative Workspace.
Secure rooms: Taking privacy to a whole new level in the office
With cybersecurity threats on the rise, the private sector is taking a cue from national security protocol to protect corporate secrets, investing in highly protected SCIFs, or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities.