Visitors can feel the culture the moment they walk through the door to your office. The latest research from Proxyclick (2018) shows that two out of every five people claim that their perception of a company or brand has been negatively…

After exploring many organizational development programs, I’ve found lasting impact in the change that can occur with the simplicity of a mindset shift. Discovering the power of personal accountability was a major mindset shift for me;…

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

The triple-pillar mode, based on Dave Ulrich‘s role model, has now become widely accepted as an HR business model, particularly in large companies. It consists of three core areas: the HR Busi-ness Partner, the Centre of Expertise, and the…

At the first Transdisciplinary Workplace Research conference (#TWR18) in Tampere, around fifty researchers, mostly academic with a few practitioners, gathered to discuss their latest workplace research on topics such as wellbeing,…

Reflecting on what has changed about the town centre, and what has not, since an original blog on the subjectin 2010

by @paulcarder (with contributions from @therealsulim) If you have read the story so far, in Part 1, three managers met at the bar of a corporate training centre. Frankie (from HR), Sam (from FM - Facilities Management), and Jules (from…

by @paulcarder Three managers walk into the bar . They all have gender-neutral names, so I'll leave you to work out whether they may be male or female. Not that it matters in this context. Frankie gets there first. "Hi. Large glass of…

Is Facilities Management Strategic? What does it mean to be a strategic business resource? Those questions are crucial to the future of the Facilities Management (FM) profession. Please contribute to an important conversation and research…

by @paulcarder This is a simple post. It is intended to cause a good-natured argument amongst professionals. I'm more interested in how things are achieved, by whom, than perhaps by the end result. Take workplace transformation as an…

by @paulcarder (References at footer) You are probably quite familiar with the term "evidence-based design" (or EBD) as a corporate real estate, FM or workplace professional. In fact, there is a new EBD Journal. You may not have heard of…