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.
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.
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.
Strategizing the Workplaces of Tomorrow
Great workplaces are driven by a shared vision—the blend of an organization’s culture and a strategy for how people can do their best work. This shared vision inspires people to thrive, and as a result their organizations thrive. Placing the wellbeing of people at the core can create a happier and more productive workforce, increasing the chances for people to succeed within the organization’s culture and “live out” the vision.
Workplace Designers Embrace Technology and Data to Benefit Workers
To compete in today’s fast-paced, complex, global economy, organizations need people who come to work energized, ready to generate new ideas, solve problems in new ways and make meaningful progress every day. But, the reality is highly engaged workers are the exception not the rule.
Gartner: Digital workplace shifts required buy-in from across lines of business
Digital workplace leaders need to put a framework in place to ensure digital workplace initiatives succeed, according to a new report from Gartner.
Watch: Powered by Human Experience - London-based Sky, Europe’s leading Entertainment Company
To give you a practical sense of one client’s journey to enhance human experience, please watch this story from London-based Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company.
How to Design a Stunning Modern Office
Modern style: a classic and popular design aesthetic for offices and homes alike. Contrary to common belief, this design does not equal whatever is currently in style. Mid-century modern, referring to the time period between the 1940’s and 1960’s, laid the foundations for what we now consider modern design.
Guest Experience: A Lesson in Flexibility
Some huge cultural shifts in the way people use the built environment are tearing across building typologies, geographies and demographics, and conversations at the proverbial watercooler reveal that designers at CallisonRTKL have taken note.