Month: March 2016

• How one of the world’s most successful firms used a small office to manage change

  Posted on March 10, 2016 by Charles Marks

  Sigma Aldrich is one of the world’s leading life sciences firms turning over some $2.8 billion and employing around 9,600 people worldwide. The firm’s success is built on its ability to stay at the forefront of innovation in its field, pioneer new ideas and services as well as respond to and anticipate changing market conditions on both […]

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• Small offices are not necessarily just for small firms

  Posted on March 9, 2016 by Fresh Workspace

  Napoleon was right about at least one thing. Britain really is a nation of shopkeepers. Or at least it is in the sense that the UK is already a nation of small business people and the influence of SMEs on both economy and British workplace culture continues to grow. The Federation of Small Business estimates […]

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• The storage of information by businesses shouldn’t end up like the man drawer

  Posted on March 9, 2016 by Fresh Workspace

  There’s only one reason to store anything and that’s because it will be useful in the future. That seems a pretty obvious thing to say but if you believe the comedian Michael McIntyre, there aren’t many houses in the country that don’t have some sort of man drawer full of things that are stored in […]

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• The hundred year search for the link between office design and productivity

  Posted on March 7, 2016 by Charles Marks

  The quest for a proper understanding of the links between the places we work, the things with which we fill them and our wellbeing and productivity has been ongoing for a very long time. It certainly predates our current thinking on productive workplace design and the facilities management discipline as we now know it by […]

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