85 percent of employees consider the work environment critical to job satisfaction and a lack of space can cause negative experiences for 70 percent of employees.
Employees want good tech and flexibility but stick with their own fixed desk
Hip offices are part of our mental health crisis, here’s why
Many executives have taken this idea–the culture of the modern workplace–and elected to throw out the corporate layout book by making their office spaces into open, cooperative, colorful lounges.
Designing a better workforce: how workplace design can impact employee wellbeing
In a recent survey, 95 percent of office workers said their physical work environment is important for their wellbeing and mental health.
The vaguery of workplace serendipity
The rise of the agile (or ‘activity-based’) workplace rekindled the idea from the cubicle farms of the 1970s and 80s of the ‘watercooler moment’ – serendipitous casual encounters, unplanned and accidental interactions or collisions that would spark innovation.
Inside the Transition From Traditional to Open Office
A Glendale-based tech firm is expanding from a 40-person workforce to a 400-person workforce, and it is adopting an open office plan to accommodate the growth.
How Ikea’s innovation lab redesigned its own open plan office
Many employees hate open offices. Yet scores of them continue to be built around the world; after all, open plan designs likely save companies millions per year.
Programming And Research-Based Process: The Genesis For Fostering Playful Work Design Exploration
The square and the tower: why meetings and meeting spaces are more important than ever before
The subject of meetings is one of those that all too frequently generates as much heat as it does light. It is just as emotive a subject for people as office temperature, noise and distractions and the volatility of technology.
Affordance Impacts on Human Performance
Amenities With Meaning: What The Modern Marketplace Demands
When assessing workplace strategy: we should always test rather than guess
Why do many of the largest companies in the world invest millions of dollars in buildings or renovating their workplaces and never even bother to measure results.
Office Design That Helps Employees Enjoy Their Stay
Can office design promote good leadership skills?
Leadership strategy has been named as a defining factor in raising performance - it's time for office designers to recognize it
Governments embrace the modern workplace
Big companies for years have been on the hunt for technology-infused flexible workspaces that help attract talent and boost productivity.
Workplace Safety: Addressing The Active Shooter In Commercial Interiors
In the age of the open office, with benching and extensive use of glass, hiding becomes a bit of a challenge.
Design 2019: the Human Experience
User optimization at the personal level is readily becoming a key concept throughout all aspects of design and across vertical markets.
Cubicles are back, and we have open plan offices to thank
A crop of new startups are racing to reinvent the cubicle, catering to businesses that want more private space for their employees.
Finding the Goldilocks Point for collaborative workplace design
One of the great paradoxes of modern life is the ever increasing likelihood of breakdowns in communication in a world in which we have more ways to talk to each other than ever before.
Why is it so hard to design a decent office space?
Maybe the time has come to shoot the workplace messenger
The fact is that an organization and an individual will have different perspectives on what is a ‘good’ workplace.