Month: July 2016
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The urge to personalise space is all too human, but it also helps firms to engage employees
In America at least, the great symbol of corporate conformity is the office cubicle. Satirised in the Dilbert cartoons and a staple in any movie about the degrading aspects of modern working life, the cubicle provides a perfect shorthand way of portraying an individual crushed by the corporate jackboot. Yet what these things miss is […]
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Striking the right balance between focus and collaboration in office design
The challenge of providing at least some degree of solitude, peace and quiet in an office is one of those issues that most people involved in the design and management of workplaces can accept is very important. Yet it has proved to be one of those intractable issues that suffers both from and to need […]
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To mark the arrival of the Summer, here are seven other late bloomers
The late designer Niels Diffrient was nearly 70 when he began to develop and launch the seating designs that were not only to change the fortunes of the company Humanscale, but herald a new approach to ergonomics that was based on movement rather than posture and which is now the most enlightened approach to ergonomics […]
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We don’t know what the future holds, but office design can help us be ready for it
The way we carry out office design is important because of what it tells us about how we work, how organisations function and even what is happening in the economy. If you want to know what’s going on, take a look at office interior solutions and the contemporary office furniture with which we surround ourselves. […]
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How our noisy world was foreseen by the 20th Century’s great minds
Over the past few years we’ve become more aware of the problems associated with the pace and clatter of modern life and not least among them its noise. Authors like Susan Cain have highlighted not only how distracting noise can be for everybody but how it affects different personality types in different ways. She is […]
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Third spaces and distributed work define the office of the future (and present)
We’ve long argued not only that the office of the future will be defined by the use of third spaces such as cafes, breakout spaces, quiet rooms and shared workstations, but the idea is already widespread in the office of the present. That idea is confirmed by a new report from the International Facility Management Association […]
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A new generation of office furniture can help to create an oasis of calm in our hectic lives
When it comes to our busy modern working lives, hell really can be other people. Office based staff can have enormous difficulties coming to terms with the sounds that form the backdrop to their working day, especially if they work in open plan areas. The problem with these kind of working environments is particularly acute […]
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The need for privacy and other trends in office design for law firms
If you want to understand an organisation, take a look at the place it calls home. Offices by their very nature reflect what goes on inside them and how the organisation sees itself. And when an organisation changes, so too does its workplace. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the design of the offices […]
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