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…

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. 

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…

A highly readable discussion about the forces affecting how, when, and where people get work done – and why they make the choices they do. Many of their 2012 solid predictions (increased flexibility, increased mobility, increased remote…

2022 update of IFMA Foundation's Work on the Move series. Explores the expanding role of FM and leadership associated with delivering workplaces post-pandemic.

The radically changing nature of “Work, Workers & Workplaces” – using space as a starting point of innovation

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…

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…

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”.

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…

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…