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How to save a sinking ship: lessons from Yahoo
No firm’s workplace has been more talked about in the last few years than Yahoo’s and not always in a good way. But what happened and what lessons does it have for the way we all design and…
Six activity based working trends from Northern Europe
How the Northern European experience proves activity based working should be viewed as a change process rather than merely a design project
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 missing piece of the workplace design and management conundrum?
Could a comparatively obscure French Marxist philosopher prove to be the key that unlocks the great puzzle of workplace design and management?
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?
Managing the intersecting worlds of work on a global scale
The converging worlds of technology, corporate real estate, of ce design, human resources and facilities management are an inevitable and solution driven response to the growth of agile…
Cornell University’s research on leadership, workplace transformation and new…
The ability to respond to change is one of the most widely cited prerequisites for success in the modern business world. When it comes to implementing change it’s worth remembering that…
Opening up The Workplace Conversation
The Workplace Conversation