Buildings contribute 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. We have an opportunity to make a big impact.
Climate Change Solutions for Workplace Design
The open-plan office isn't the enemy - it's how we use it that matters
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.
Giving Talent What They Want
Organizations are attracting the best talent by creating workplaces that boost innovation with great work experiences.
‘The Next Chapter in the Evolution of the Open Workplace’
Designers are adding elements like walls on wheels and movable pods into office spaces to provide more flexibility.
The Screen-Centric Future Workplace
Workplace design has always strived to be human-centered. However, as technology and computing are becoming a central part of workplaces, getting deeper information about how technologies are getting integrated into work may help shed new light on how people really work.
Workers want offices that inspire themselves and others
The survey of 1,000 UK office workers also claims that employees are conscious of how their office looks on social media.
Podcast - The Battle for Office Design: Functionality vs Aesthetics
LINcast host Gabe Duverge is joined by Ramsey Madsen of MTRL live from NeoCon 2019. The pair discussed the prescient challenge of balancing aesthetics with functionality in office design and how Madsen strives to do so in his work for some of the world's biggest brands.
The scale of the problem for workplace design
The link between scale, size and form is also, unsurprisingly, evident in the built environment and in workplace design.
I’ve been designing offices for decades. Here’s what I got wrong
Verda Alexander questions the cushy, amenity-laden offices that her interior design firm helped pioneer. The way forward, she argues, is to introduce a little friction into the workplace.
Smarter offices, happier workers
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.
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.
