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…

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…

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…

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.

I caught up with an old friend, as you do when you’re housebound reminiscing about the days when you could grab a chicken laksa at Jimmy’s or share a beer after work. He mentioned former colleagues of his were on the verge of moving into a…

Work&Place has just published a powerful article by University of California-Berkeley Professor Henry Chesbrough describing how "open innovation" can produce powerful results but also introduces new pitfalls and opportunities for…

Workplace Event organisers old and new are adapting their offerings to meet the needs of a more active and broadening market for knowledge on all things 'Work&Place'. This blog is the start of a 2020 investigation of the workplace…

The Work&Place Editorial Advisory Board has just declared "Maybe the time has come at last to shoot the workplace messenger," by Rob Harris, the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Insight award given annually to the most important and…

Work&Place has just published a powerful article describing how a leader's assumptions about his or her staff drive behaviors, affect employee engagement, and produce either a healthy, productive team or an angry, frustrated one.

Over the last 10 years, the best proponent of change in corporate real estate conference agendas is the CoreNet Global Summit programme, from Asia, Europe, and America. Their North America summit in Anaheim, California (October 20-22) now…

The latest issue of Work&Place, published for Spring 2019, offers cutting-edge, in-depth thinking about the most important contemporary workplace issues from the foremost experts in the field worldwide.

Anthony Tasgal argues that we rely far too much on data and algorithims and need to rediscover our curiosity to address workplace challenges