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Slow progress on sustainable buildings, RICS report claims
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Third of people hide their use of workplace AI from employers
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Office attendance and desk use are on the rise as firms make most of real estate
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Life science interiors: here’s how to create a petri dish for scientific breakthroughs
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The bill for upgrading office buildings worldwide could hit £1 trillion
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The new digital issue of Works magazine would look just dandy on your screen
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Hybrid working means people feel as if they are always at work
May 14, 2013
How ingrained assumptions about the workplace are eroding
by Ros Pomeroy • Comment, Facilities management, Workplace design
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The first day at a new job used to mean getting the answer to that all important question: “so which is my office?” In today’s mostly open plan environments, the same psychological attachment has been transferred to the desk – ‘my’ desk. However the current trend for flexible approaches to where people work means that even the concept of having one’s own desk is now under attack. So how much does having your own desk matter to the UK office workforce these days? We have been asking employees how they feel about having their own desk. The results seem to be that more than half, on average 56% (of a total of 2,653 employees surveyed at 5 recent client projects), think that it is ‘very important’ and a further 25% think it is ‘quite important’.
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