Month: April 2016

• We should think carefully about the psychology of couches in reception areas

  Posted on April 26, 2016 by Paul Goodchild

  It was the Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa who first described the door handle as ‘the handshake of the building’ in his classic book on architectural theory The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. That may well be true but buildings greet us in other ways too and we respond to those greetings in […]

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• How office design can help us to take a break and work more productively

  Posted on April 24, 2016 by Charles Marks

  We Brits work the longest hours in Europe. In a recent study of 2,000 British employees, recruitment firm Randstad found that 43 percent are now working so hard they say it would be impossible to work any harder, compared to just 30 percent this time last year. On top of that, over half of UK […]

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• The UK’s thriving tech sector is finding a home away from London

  Posted on April 21, 2016 by Fresh Workspace

  In some ways, the UK’s digital industries are becoming a victim of their own success. The rapid growth of the tech sector, especially in the enclaves set up to nurture startups in London, now means that businesses are having to make decisions about where to locate that is causing them to migrate into neighbouring London […]

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• How chill-out spaces can transform your workplace and wellbeing

  Posted on April 21, 2016 by Charles Marks

  

  Over the past few years the breakout space has become a staple feature of many offices. Although it is usually designed to be both an informal meeting space and a place for people to take some time out from work, a growing number of organisations are looking to create spaces that are solely designed as […]

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