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Common characteristics of the Workspace transformation game
Improving the workspace experience costs money!
If you are connected to corporate office space, you will be familiar with the dilemma driven conversation about how to improve the workspace and the need to find the funds for those…
The Office as a Desired Destination: Workplace Trends, London, 18 October 2023
My original intention was to write a quick blog to raise awareness of the upcoming Workplace Trends event in London on 18 October, strapline ‘The Office as a Desired Destination’. Work&Place are media partners. But as is the way of…
550 employee group pre/post COVID Organisation Network Analysis Study
ONA research findings spanning the pre and post Covid period based on a large population from a single company gives insights into human capital development for workspace strategists.
Post Occupancy Evaluations (but this time with photos and feelings)
It wasn’t always the case that once a project was complete and the new occupiers where toiling away in their new workspace, it would make sense to ask if the original intentions of the design are delivering on their promise.
Project…
Beyond The Workplace Zoo-Humanising the Office
One of the defining characteristics of the debate about work and workplaces during the pandemic has been the reinvigoration of a couple of ideas about human beings we thought had been put to bed.
The first is the idea of people as…
Celebrating the Third Place
The global workplace community is in the midst of a revolution of thought and action about how, where, and when work should take place. For all the right reasons, we are in search of how to enable meaningful work from literally any…
SMART WORK-The Ultimate Handbook for Remote and Hybrid Teams
A handbook to help understand the post-pandemic change, that “focuses on what is working in practice around the world and in hugely varied organizations”.
Never Going Back: How Covid-19 changed work for good
A book that describes how some businesses survived and even thrived in COVID pandemic, what they learned from those experiences, and how they - and their employees - have invented new and highly effective ways of working that lead to vastly…
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 workforce. Even before effective remote technologies…
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 it all endlessly. And each time they have, I’ve…
Important Webinar on The Future of Work
Cognizant's Robert H. Brown and Desmond Dickerson will join Meeting of the Minds for a free webinar on August 19, 2020, at 10am PDT to walk us through their findings and take your questions. All registrants will receive a copy of the…
Workplace Events (Part 2)
This post is the follow up to a late 2019 post on Workplace Events. It looks at the ramifications of no physical events and what is required from the Workplace Events industry.