A major driver of smart offices is getting people more engaged, says Sharon Turner, senior principal and director of interiors for Canada at HOK, an international architecture and design firm.
Smarter offices, happier workers
Beyond Amenities, What’s Next for Workplace Design?
At a panel discussion titled “The New Basics,” designers, developers, and facilities experts tried to work out what will be essential to the office of the future.
The theme park of modern office design
Why is it that we still feel the need to use Twentieth Century furniture when we want to express certain ideas in office design.
In An Era Of Constant Disruption, Is Your Workplace Ready To Survive And Thrive?
JLL’s Bernice Boucher offers some strategies that can help you improve agility while delivering a unique employee experience.
Volkswagen to apply agile working at new Berlin campus
Volkswagen has opened its new ‘We Campus’ in Berlin and claims that the agile working principles used in its design will transform the working lives and output of the 900 people at the facility.
Let’s Talk About “Wow Factor” In Workplace Design
Today's Office Occupier Must-Have: A Roof Terrace
Research by JLL and digital office broker Hubble shows a staggering 238% increase in the number of potential UK tenants listing an office roof terrace among their list of desirable amenities.
Poor office design continues to hampers productivity
Research published by Dell claims to highlight the issues related to office design holding back workers’ productivity and the impact this has on UK business.
A Turing Test for the workplace
The erosion of the demarcations between the people responsible for the built, technological and cultural workplace means that it is less important whether you are talking to somebody with a background in facilities management, HR or IT. Indeed it will become impossible to tell, and irrelevant anyway.
The biggest problem with open plan offices is how they are used
For decades the trend among workplaces has seen employees moving out of individual offices and into open plan spaces. This has not always been successful, with the open-plan approach receiving significant criticism.
NeoCon: Catching up with Neil Schneider
5 Leading Architects Weigh in on the Future of Work
More people are working remotely, and it’s transforming office design
GitHub, Atlassian, and Basecamp—where some or most of the employees are remote—share their tips for designing offices that are good for workers, wherever they are.
This is the most dog-friendly office ever
Workplace Of The Future: Designing To Recruit Top Talent
nterface’s Chip DeGrace explains why companies need to design spaces that are representative of the diverse job functions that reside in a given workplace in order to recruit and retain top talent.
Airbnb offers $24 tours of its company headquarters
Visitors to Airbnb can choose from either a day-time tour or a night-time option with dinner on campus.
A just in time lesson about office design
The nascent years of new ways of working in the late 80s and early 90s coincided with a widely held but soon to be discarded belief that the Japanese had cracked management practices.
Workers go cold on hot desking
The practice of sharing workstations with fellow workers is making people increasingly unhappy, according to a survey of more than 1,000 office workers by real estate firm Savills.
These are the big challenges future workplaces pose for architects
For architects and designers, creating an office space is increasingly becoming about more than rows of desks and access to natural light. Greater understanding of our mental and physical wellbeing and the impact on our performance is affecting how spaces are conceived and designed – and the global attention now on the threat of climate change means the construction industry are reckoning with the impact the industry is having.
