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Cultures and working spaces designed to foster peer-to-peer learning
In today’s dynamic digital economy, employees must upgrade their skills on a continuous basis. Two new kinds of workplaces – maker spaces and fablabs – create innovative learning…
Heisenberg, Jabberwocky and the medicalisation of dissatisfaction
Work isn't as enjoyable as it should be but is our dissatisfaction with it primarily about the places and cultures in which we work or our reaction to them?
Throwing open the window to a new world of work
This blog is about accepting that what we believe to be true might turn out to be wrong, including in the world of work. It's about Ignaz Semmelweis and what can happen when people are…
Creativity and place: Does where you are impact on how or what you think?
Can we increase our capacity for problem solving and creativity? Studies show that space does affect our mood and behaviour
The psychological highways, byways and cul-de-sacs of office management
Psychologists have largely neglected the influence of those who determine the design and operation of our workplaces. How does managerial control affect well-being and productivity?
