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Why we should remember there’s an off switch on our devices while we’re on holiday
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
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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Natural forms and biophilic design lend themselves particularly well to modern offices
Earlier this month, BRE launched The Biophilic Office project, a ‘groundbreaking’ office refurbishment in test conditions that will seek to provide quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, wellbeing and productivity of office occupants. The project centres on a 650 sq. m. 1980s office building on the BRE campus in Watford, which will be refurbished […]
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The paperless office is no nearer to reality than it was 30 years ago
The first paperless office opened in the Spring of 1979. Designed by a management consultant as a model of the office of the future, the building in Washington DC was filled with the first generation of electronic scanners, microfiche readers and other products. A computer expert who was present at the launch recalls that the demonstration […]
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Modern office inclusive design should address everybody’s needs
Over recent years the principle of inclusive design has extended beyond its original focus on meeting the needs of disabled people to incorporate a more general principle of how to use office interior design as a way of making sure everybody can work in the most appropriate and most productive way possible. So what can […]
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Health and safety is no longer enough in the new world of work
The Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) is an incredibly important piece of legislation and one which gave workers and employers their first basic rights pertaining to the workplace. But the act is over forty years years old and while no one questions that it was a turning point in the way things were, […]
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The elemental links between workplace wellbeing and productivity
The quest for a proper understanding of the links between the places we work and our wellbeing and productivity has been ongoing for a very long time. It predates the health and safety debate as we now know it with roots in research such as that carried out at the Hawthorne Works in Chicago in […]
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Flexible working and ergonomics; so easy a child can do it
Language may be constantly evolving but if you want to see how a word can lose its meaning quickly, there’s no better example than watching the way some companies can misappropriate it in a misguided attempt to help them sell their products. For example, the big problem with the way some people talk about the […]
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Good ergonomics is about moving and standing as well as sitting
Although the idea has been around for a long time, workplace ergonomics first came to prominence in the wake of the intensive growth in the use of computers. That wasn’t really all that long ago, maybe 25 years, but its legacy is already a fairly fixed and traditional idea of the ideal workstation and the […]
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Change is a fact of modern working life and design can help us embrace it
When people talk about the pace of change in the modern world, they often refer to the speed at which technology develops. In fact, almost every aspect of the world in which we live is subject to near continuous change. In the case of workplace design, the world is shifting very quickly indeed, often as […]
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