Category Archive For "Workplace Design"
The workplace after lockdown will be an evolution of what we already know
Understandably, we are hearing an awful lot right now about the disruption that the pandemic and lockdown are causing to our lives, and in particular the way we work. While a great deal of attention has been focussed on the immediate consequences for our daily lives, there is a growing body of speculation about the …
Agile working is transforming organisations and property markets worldwide
The words agile working might slip from our tongues easily enough these days, but just twenty-five or so years ago, before the Internet began to unravel the bonds that tied us full time to the workplace, offices were looked at in very different ways. Of course, firms have always had concerns about the efficient use …
Some happy talk about the workplace
Measuring happiness is fraught with problems, not least because it’s a difficult idea to define both as a general concept and how it relates to the economy and to work. Lord Richard Layard, programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics argues in his book Happiness: Lessons from a …
Raising the bar – the se:spot stool for work
We all know the office landscape is constantly developing. Rigid workplace concepts are disappearing. The aesthetics, design and furnishings of office spaces are ever changing. Also, the way people work is changing. Office concepts are based on the needs of employees and on a wide variety of work requirements. Where employees like to meet, exchange …
How office design can encourage people to do nothing except have great ideas
There is a famous episode of Seinfeld in which the character George is insulted in a business meeting and only thinks of a perfect retort while driving away from the office. This being George, he decides that he doesn’t want to waste his ‘killer line’ so engineers a second meeting so he can use it …
Feeling blue about work? We know the answer to that
Monday 20 January is ‘officially’ Blue Monday in the UK, ‘officially’ the most depressing day of the year for people at work. The anniversary is always met with a great deal of scepticism, largely because it is the brainchild of Sky’s marketing department who came up with the idea to publicise the Travel Channel in …
The first colour cookbook for professional office furnishings
Colour recipes for the modern office. With the COLOUR COOKBOOK, Sedus is publishing the first specialist book to deal exclusively with colour schemes for office areas.
Agile working and the transformation of office design
The workplace has gone soft and I mean that in a good way. Over the past twenty or more years we have experienced the very welcome development of a much softer aesthetic generally when it comes to the design of offices. This process has accelerated dramatically in recent years as more and more firms have …
German Design Award 2020 – Gold for se:spot
Several Sedus products were honoured with the German Design Award 2020 this year. There was also an award for the first time in the “Gold” category for Sedus – the four-legged chair se:spot was particularly impressive.