Flexible working

• 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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• What the UK’s pharmaceutical firms taught the world’s tech giants about workplace design

  Posted on September 11, 2017 by admin

  

  When we talk about the UK’s success in creativity and innovation, one sector is frequently overlooked in favour of cutting edge digital and media firms. The UK’s pharmaceutical industry enjoys a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative and successful business sectors. Its tale can best be told in numbers. It includes the fifth […]

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• Why we should remember there’s an off switch on our devices while we’re on holiday

  Posted on August 2, 2017 by admin

  

  According to all the predictions about the future we saw while growing up, one thing that definitely should have happened by now is that we would spend less time at work and more at our leisure. Machines should have freed us from the endless hours of drudgery to spend more time doing what we want […]

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• Successful flexible working is built on the foundations of great office design

  Posted on July 21, 2017 by admin

  

  In May, the Wall Street Journal reported that IBM had announced that it was obliging a significant number of its staff to give up on remote working and instead move back to corporate offices, many of them regional hubs. There was a predictably major backlash to the news that a major corporation was apparently turning its […]

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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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• Laptop thigh is the latest thing to worry about in the workplace

  Posted on November 30, 2016 by Fresh Workspace

  

  Modern life afflicts us daily with new and pernicious ways of harming ourselves. One of the most recently identified has been named by researchers at the University of Basel as ‘Laptop Thigh’. Caused by prolonged exposure of the skin to moderate heat, the physical condition itself is nothing new. It goes by the medical name […]

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• The enduring appeal and functionality of offices and paper

  Posted on September 13, 2016 by Fresh Workspace

  When it comes to looking at the future of work and workplaces, there is a tendency for people to think in terms of absolutes. There are no two better examples of this than the ‘death of the office’ and the ‘paperless office’. Both are based on very similar ideas. The thinking behind them appears to […]

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• The urge to personalise space is all too human, but it also helps firms to engage employees

  Posted on July 20, 2016 by Fresh Workspace

  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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