Month: March 2018

• Changing workplace strategies confirm importance of wellness, technology and productivity

  Posted on March 22, 2018 by Fresh Workspace

  

  Nearly two-thirds of  corporate occupiers (62 percent) plan to increase their investment in real estate technology over the next three years, most of them in the next year, according to the 2018 EMEA Occupier Survey from CBRE. Companies are intending to invest more heavily in new real estate technologies over the short to medium term in […]

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• Workplace design, corporate identity and the war for talent

  Posted on March 21, 2018 by Fresh Workspace

  

  As with so many things, the idea of the employer brand was with us for a long time before anybody saw fit to give it a label. In the past, the concept has been most obvious in the military, where a strong sense of identity, loyalty and culture must become ingrained in troops for them […]

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• How global office design trends adapt themselves to local needs

  Posted on March 21, 2018 by Fresh Workspace

  

  The ongoing evolution in the design of the places we work has much in common with evolution in the natural world. But whereas natural selection is dependent on the famous ‘Blind Watchmaker’ of evolutionary theory to shape creatures in response to the forces in their environment, workplace design is anything but blind – at least […]

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• A four hundred year old colour guide that proves there is nothing new under the Sun

  Posted on March 21, 2018 by Fresh Workspace

  

  The familiar Pantone colour chart was first developed as recently as 1963, but it’s already become almost universally recognisable. When we think of how to choose and combine colours, it is the image of the Pantone chart that comes to mind. Originally presented to a largely anologue world, its uses and references have now extended […]

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