Month: January 2017

• Multitasking and distractions in the workplace do not allow us to focus on what is important

  Posted on January 23, 2017 by Charles Marks

  

  Although the structure of our brains, we are told, is largely the same as that of our hunter-gatherer prehistoric ancestors, that does not mean they are static in the way they function. Research shows that the way our brains change in response to technology and the changing workplace suggests they are subject to a certain […]

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• Fresh Workspace director to take six day trek to help homeless young people in Bristol

  Posted on January 13, 2017 by Fresh Workspace

  

  This April, Fresh Workspace Design Director Paul Goodchild and his wife Rachel will be walking the 102 miles of the Cotswold Way to raise money for a South West based homeless charity. The route takes in some of England’s most breath-taking scenery, but the six days planned for the walk between Chipping Camden and Bath […]

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• How the coffee shop came to symbolise the new era of workplace design

  Posted on January 6, 2017 by Fresh Workspace

  According to the annual Workplace Survey for 2016 from architects Gensler, the most innovative employees are those given the chance to work in a wide variety of spaces that meet their needs, and use that option to maximum effect – whether they need individual space to focus, a conference room to brainstorm or learn a […]

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• Flexible working is not a magic bullet for workplace challenges

  Posted on January 6, 2017 by Fresh Workspace

  According to Oxford Dictionaries the word of the year for 2016 is post-truth. This is a slippery little adjective because while some things are pretty much objectively true, the use of post-truth in many contexts is merely a way of shutting down opinion. It’s especially pernicious when it comes to ideas and philosophy because it […]

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• How the coworking phenomenon is influencing the way we all design offices

  Posted on January 5, 2017 by Fresh Workspace

  In his book How Buildings Learn, the author Stewart Brand outlines the process whereby buildings evolve over time to meet the changing needs of their occupants. He describes each building as consisting of six layers, each of which functions on a different timescale. These range from the site itself which has a life cycle measured […]

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