Month: June 2015

• Three ways in which work is moving outside offices and into new domains

  Posted on June 25, 2015 by Paul Goodchild

  

  Headlines about the world’s accelerating taste for skyscrapers tend to be dominated by the big numbers. This is a world in which size is important, but get behind the focus on height and you find some very interesting data about the rapid and significant changes in what these tall buildings are actually for and how […]

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• Settings, silence, serendipity, wellbeing and other lessons from the Neocon office design show

  Posted on June 22, 2015 by Paul Goodchild

  

  The trick with visits to exhibitions like Neocon, the huge office design event which has just wrapped up in Chicago, is to stay focussed on the wood as much as the trees. So as well as identifying new products, you can also work out the themes pursued by the exhibitors and organisers which are invariably […]

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• Smells like team spirit: how good and bad smells at work affect us and our performance

  Posted on June 3, 2015 by Charles Marks

  

  When it comes to what irritates us most about our work colleagues, one of the least talked about is also one of the most aggravating. How an office smells isn’t a factor which merits as much attention as how it looks or the level of noise, yet olfactory perception can have a powerful effect on […]

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• Office reception design is about lasting impressions as much as first impressions

  Posted on June 3, 2015 by Charles Marks

  

  First impressions count. According to researchers at the University of Ottawa, people make decisions about websites within a twentieth of a second of seeing them. That may seem a bit hasty, but the good news is that we take our time when we first meet other people. We make our mind up about them in one […]

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