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Implementing flexible working in Latin America
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…
The missing piece of the workplace design and management conundrum?
Could a comparatively obscure French Marxist philosopher prove to be the key that unlocks the great puzzle of workplace design and management?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the workplace
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.
The implications of the new workplace for leadership
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’…
Long distance commuting in the UAE
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…
Smart cities, smart buildings and the growing allure of infinite data
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…
Organisations are beginning to lose patience with IT and property directors
Following a decade of declining productivity, have business leaders nally lost patience with their organisation’s iT and Property Directors?
The endlessly changing definitions of workplace and technology
Technology and generational change are combining to set free knowledge work. Organisations and individuals need to understand where and how they work best to be creative, collaborative,…
The rehabilitation of open plan office design
Open plan office design gets such a bad press these days that it’s time to redress the balance and consider the things at which it succeeds.
Managing the intersecting worlds of work on a global scale
The converging worlds of technology, corporate real estate, of ce design, human resources and facilities management are an inevitable and solution driven response to the growth of agile…