Category Archive For "Workplace Design"
The elements of wellbeing are eternal, wherever we work
Many people appear to have been somewhat taken aback by the success of the large-scale shift to remote working of the past two years, and its impact on our productivity and wellbeing. But they shouldn’t have been.
Well-being as a decisive factor
In a world where the boundaries between home and office are becoming increasingly blurred, people’s wellbeing needs to be placed at the heart of business strategies. In recent years, many companies (driven by current changes and in-depth research) have come to understand that people’s wellbeing is not only a legal obligation and important from an …
Smart storage space for smart offices
When working methods and models change, flexibility is required. Office solutions and management systems that support these changes make it possible to act as flexibly as is required. This is especially true when companies maintain a hybrid workplace model and employees move between working in the office and working at home. A central hub – …
se:cube max – the room-in-room system
More space, more flexibility, more room for retreat
Not busy-ness as usual: how boredom may be one of the keys to creativity
The modern world seems geared to help us avoid boredom. But there’s a problem. Artists have long recognised that boredom can drive creativity.
Agile working needs space for movement
Why we need physical, mental and emotional exercise Even though we are still discussing what the future holds for home office options, many employees are continuing to spend time in the office and with colleagues. Offices or forms of work organisation that are designed for linear processes (rows of individual tables, individual offices, seated meetings) …
Remote work highlights the value of weak ties
Something we can expect to hear a lot about in the near future is the power of weak ties. It’s a well-established idea in sociology, anthropology, and social network analysis theory. But it’s about to be invigorated as a way of thinking about workplaces and working culture in the wake of two major peer-reviewed studies …
se:desk home – ergonomics in the home office
As more people are becoming a part of the hybrid office model, companies are beginning to take into account the equipment their employees use at home. There is no point in undermining efforts made in the main office, in terms of ergonomics, well-being or productivity. It would be pointless to have modern facilities, with state-of-the-art …
Extensive collaboration and the office of tomorrow
The world of work is changing – again. At a time characterised by a far-reaching pandemic, there is an opportunity to rethink the existing office space. With regard to team-centered activities, interactions and different working modalities, offices can be assigned new properties: They become the centres of creative and social hybrid workplaces and thus enable “extensive …
Getting collaboration just right will be the new focus for both digital and physical work places
We should be careful not to read too much into the results of the ongoing Great Workplace Experiment, if only because it is happening under very peculiar conditions. We’ll only really understand it in retrospect and what we’ll probably conclude is that it taught us things we already knew (more or less) about humans, their …