Work & Place

Today many of our conversations at work involve speaking directly with computers, yet we don’t understand the social components of work well enough to leverage the power of the new…

No firm’s workplace has been more talked about in the last few years than Yahoo’s and not always in a good way. But what happened and what lessons does it have for the way we all design and…

How the Northern European experience proves activity based working should be viewed as a change process rather than merely a design project

Remote working and coworking in France: why they’re an ongoing challenge and what they reveal about the uniqueness of French working culture

The typical Latin American office has tended to follow the traditional US ‘bullpen’ office layout. But all that is changing as the region looks increasingly at the European flexible working…

Could a comparatively obscure French Marxist philosopher prove to be the key that unlocks the great puzzle of workplace design and management?

Our past successes and the role we have carved out in the world are not a guarantee of our future success, so we need to see the workplace for what it is.

There is still little research on the relationship between leadership and the office environment. One of the first studies examines how the office environment influences employees’…

In Dubai, there are no suburban dinosaurs so we need to look at the nature of workplace and transportation in the Middle east and the ways in which the region might cope should the current…

There needs to be greater awareness of the velocity of workplace innovation, the growth of smart Cities and their market effect on the architecture, engineering, construction and facility…