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The power of deep engagement
Workplaces are more mission-critical and dynamic than ever before. But a workplace only exists to enable its users to be their most effective as they contribute to the success of their…
Data is not the new oil – experience is
Our ability to turn employee experience data into insight and knowledge has never been more important as this will allow us to design the right workplace experiences for the future.
Book Review: The Social Organization By John Ingham
Paul Carder reviews John Ingham’s new book The Social Organization
Implementing flexible working in Latin America
The typical Latin American office has tended to follow the traditional US ‘bullpen’ office layout. But all that is changing as the region looks increasingly at the European flexible working…
The implications of the new workplace for leadership
There is still little research on the relationship between leadership and the office environment. One of the first studies examines how the office environment influences employees’…
Long distance commuting in the UAE
In Dubai, there are no suburban dinosaurs so we need to look at the nature of workplace and transportation in the Middle east and the ways in which the region might cope should the current…
Organisations are beginning to lose patience with IT and property directors
Following a decade of declining productivity, have business leaders nally lost patience with their organisation’s iT and Property Directors?
The endlessly changing definitions of workplace and technology
Technology and generational change are combining to set free knowledge work. Organisations and individuals need to understand where and how they work best to be creative, collaborative,…
The rehabilitation of open plan office design
Open plan office design gets such a bad press these days that it’s time to redress the balance and consider the things at which it succeeds.
How evidence based design is reshaping the very world around us
In practice, most workspaces are still based on the experience and intuition of architects and designers, who come up with a design solution with only minimal input from occupiers. While…