Category Archive For "Workplace Design"
Better offices and engineered serendipity will characterise work after lockdown
If you ask people what they want from their offices, they are very likely to describe something more like a café than a traditional office. This has been true for some time and never more so than in this period in which people have been obliged to work out exactly what they want from their …
What Steve Jobs can teach us about the future of work and office design
At the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen, Steve Jobs delivered a speech addressing the theme of the conference; The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be. In it he set out his thoughts on new technology, intuitive design, personal computing as well as the need for a constantly evolving idea of what the future …
Protection in the workplace
Sometimes special circumstances require special measures.
Inclusivity should be woven into the culture and fabric of the office
You can tell an awful lot about an organisation just by looking at the workplace it inhabits. These days that means the technological and cultural space as much as the physical office. Traditional office design models and standards can disadvantage certain individuals and make the office all but unusable for others.
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 …
The problem of office distraction and the quest for sanctuary (some of the time)
Ask most office workers what they find most annoying and unproductive about their workplace and they’re most likely by some distance to suggest that it is sound, closely followed by the related issue of visual privacy.. The issue has intensified over the past few years with the proliferation of mobile devices and as the amount …
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 ideas and …