Month: December 2014
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Successful flexible working is built on the foundations of great office design
We’ve written before about the response to Yahoo’s decision in 2013 to ban its staff from homeworking but, in many ways, the fallout has continued ever since. This can only be because it was a defining event in an enduring debate about where we work, office design and what it all means across a range of […]
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Ten workplace trends that will shape office design in 2015
The year 2015 is approaching rapidly. Here at Fresh Workspace, we are looking forward to it, sure in our belief that if you want to know what’s going on in the world of work, you should first take a look at what is happening with workplace design and managment. Whatever happens to the organisation, the people […]
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Greater choice of office flooring reflects sophisticated demands of occupiers
Buildings are judged in terms of their floorspace in more ways than you might think. When it comes to specifying office flooring, it’s not just a question of square metres, but also of identity, space definition, colour, finish and the environment. Like many aspects of the built environment, flooring manufacturers continue to innovate in terms […]
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Modern facilities management thinking views offices as a strategic asset
One of the enduring forces that shape facilities management thinking is the growing business case for treating buildings as a strategic asset. You may have heard it many times, but the figures behind this are indisputable. For most organisations the total operating cost of their property runs at between 10 and 20 per cent of […]
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How office design can help elephants and smaller beasts to dance
The challenge for most large organisations nowadays is often likened to being something akin to making an elephant dance. This metaphor has become a bit of a cliché in its own right since the American businessman Louis Gerstner used it as the title of his memoir describing how he had turned round the fortunes of IBM in […]
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