Last week, over 600 workplace and property experts met in London at the CoreNet Global Summit 2017 to discuss some of the most important trends affecting the sector.
The mega trends that continue to reshape the workplace around the world
Q+A: Healthy Space Research
Our number one goal is to elevate the employee-owner experience through IAQ transparency. Studies have shown that sharing this data alone can increase occupants’ positive perceive of environments they cannot fully control.
What Workplaces Can Learn From College Campuses
as companies look to recruit talent from college and university campuses, they are overlooking an effective recruitment strategy that is theirs for the taking — the campus design itself.
The impact of open-plan offices on leadership
The reason that many big corporates rushed to emulate the workspace design of startup firms was the attraction of co-working spaces.
It’s the workplace, but not as we know it
Stimulated by the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and wider technological advances, office buildings will undergo radical change and become more crucial than ever to commercial success.
Microsoft and Steelcase Launch Partnership in Asia Pacific
Creativity is not just for artists or people who’ve studied under someone deemed creative. The ability to creatively solve problems is an innate human quality everyone shares. The question is: How do organizations help unlock people’s creative potential?
Why the built environment needs a people-first philosophy
Today’s buildings have more of a focus on open, sustainable design than ever before as growing numbers of companies want offices that not only make the most of the space but also get the best from the people inside.
The employee, not the employer, is dictating the future of work
JLL’s recently released Future of Work model dedicates a significant amount of attention to a company’s ability to create a memorable day-to-day for employees. We call it “The Human Experience” and we believe it’s going to completely change the way organizations attract and keep top talent. The Human Experience draws from a global study of more than 7,000 employees of JLL clients.
Employers create homey workplaces to attract and please millennials
While attractive workspaces might make employees feel happier and more productive, many people are finding working at home more attractive than an area resembling their living room. The rise in remote workers during the past few decades could be a testament to that viewpoint.
Watch: The growing urbanisation of work and workplaces
even as the city makes its way into our offices, so the people emerge from them to colonise the urban environment. We have become so accustomed to working wherever we think it best that when people are asked to describe their ideal working environment, what they tend to come up with is essentially a High Street cafe.
Approachable Technology in the Workplace
Far-reaching changes occur when new technology is welcomed into the workplace; culture, language, and even time itself are impacted.
Majority of US office workers demand technology that allows them to work anywhere
The majority of North American office workers expect their employers to provide technology that allows them to work from wherever they choose and three quarter of employees (74 percent) would rather leave their job to work for an organization that would allow them to work remotely more often, even if their salary stayed the same.
Is a Noisy Office drowning your Productivity?
The open-plan office, with its lack of offices, partitions and other noise-absorbing devices, is the main culprit in the war on noise. The push to create more collaborative, creative workplaces has made some employees feel like battery chickens.
Raising the bar on workplace experience
In Australia, we’re spoilt for choice in terms of work-life balance. We have great access to water, parklands and beaches which creates a different transition from work life to home life than many of our regional and global neighbors. Yet despite this, our latest report, Workplace – Powered by Human Experience, has found our engagement levels are lagging behind our global counterparts.
Up Close: Melissa Pesci - changes driving the workplace—and opportunities to engage people on different levels.
Melissa Pesci, AIA, LEED AP, is an Architect and Principal specializing in workplace planning and design in HGA’s Corporate Interiors Group. Here, she talks about changes driving the workplace—and opportunities to engage people on different levels.
When Architects and Manufacturers Work Together, Beautiful Design Emerges
With open-plan offices continuing to combat privacy and noise issues, product manufacturers have been presenting solutions in the forms of booths and cocoons.
Workplace flexibility: Your key to hiring and retaining the best
If you want to hire and retain the best tech talent, you have to be flexible. Workplace flexibility is fast becoming a must-have perk for candidates and employees alike; it’s even more important than healthcare.
Architecture's next big thing: buildings that make us feel better
Forget style, functionality and aesthetics: architecture’s hot topic is how to design buildings that improve our health, both mental and physical. Cue indoor gardens, emotionally pleasing colour palettes, stairs in place of lifts … even animal enclosures.
5 Modern Conference Room Designs We Love
Even though many workers are gravitating toward relaxed office environments, the conference room remains a vital part of the workplace. They offer private space for larger meetings, provide an area to discuss confidential topics, and accommodate formal gatherings. A home to meetings and collaborative sessions, conference rooms are a key component of your office. They are home to collaboration and a spot to make a design statement. Here are five of our favorite conference rooms designs.
Inspiring Spaces to Boost Creative Confidence
Beyond our traditional views of creative work, the new creativity requires fresh approaches to people, process and place. In addition, there is an important connection to happiness. Places that create the conditions for creativity also create the conditions for wellbeing – leading to happier people.