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Careers: The Mars City Project – Gamification for High Schools
The Mars City Project run by the IFMA Foundation in conjunction with NASA finds an imaginative way to engage the minds of young facilities managers.
Bringing together the workplace tribes
Why BIFM’s recently announced collaboration with CIPD is more than forming opinions; it’s about bringing together two communities.
Cultural and work modalities: opportunities and challenges for real estate
Cultural and work modalities present a number of challenges and opportunities for real estate professionals.
Open plan offices and an idea whose time has come at last
“One can resist a military invasion, but it is impossible to resist the march of ideas” ...Victor Hugo, 1877
How the workplace dodos can survive and prosper
There are a host of benefits to be gained when the workplace strategy sector builds bridges between ‘people’ and ‘place’
The offices of the future will be tailored to changing needs and preferences
The complex interplay of the forces driving the workplaces of the future
The emerging workplace is urban
The changing relationship between work and place challenges our inherited ideas about offices and, now, a combination of the physical and digital is transforming the urban landscape too
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
Art Works! The importance of art in the workplace
Art in the workplace is more than purely decorative - research suggests it can have a positive impact on organisations and people
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?