Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Pandemic Burnout While Working from Home
The Emerging Social Infrastructure of Work (Ever Shrinking Boxes)
Applied Anthropology: Adding Value to Workplace Strategy
How sensors intelligence informs workplace productivity
SMART Workspaces: Part 1-Tech’ Ecosystem
Articles from W&P issue 11
Fortunately, if we understand unpredictability and the true nature of disruption we can make ourselves ready for it. Nowhere is this understanding more important than in our working lives and the built environment. While technology can change very quickly, our skills, company cultures, and…
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The future of offices and the urban environment
In spite of technologies that today enable us to participate in conversations and listen to presentations from anywhere, most of us continue to travel and spend time and money to participate in live in-person gatherings of professionals. We…
Designing the workplace to unleash everybody’s full potential
There is a growing body of research on the impact that work environments, workplace habits, and culture have on people and broader business performance. The most valuable assets in a modern organisation are its employees who generate the…
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Is the emerging workplace still urban in a post COVID-19 world?
Andrew Laing re-examines the trends he identified in his 2014 W&P article towards dense, collaborative technology-enabled urban workplaces or ‘work-scapes’. He argues that the…
Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere
Review by Dr. Jim Ware, Work&Place, San Francisco, April 2021
Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere by Harvard Business School Professor Tsedal Neeley
(Harper Collins,…
Maybe great minds do think alike
There are many themes running through the history of the workplace; one that I have followed for many years is the challenge of engaging and coordinating a distributed and highly mobile…
The four underlying causes of Zoom fatigue revealed in new research
The much discussed idea of Zoom fatigue turns out to be a real phenomenon according to new peer reviewed research from Stanford academics. The study published in the American…
Whenever I hear the future of work, I reach for my pistol
For years it has been evident that there is no ‘future of work’. There is only a journey with no destination and no single way of not getting to it. That hasn’t stopped people talking about…
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