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Regional inequalities in the quality of work continue to widen, new report claims
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Lack of flexible working options drives a million people to swap jobs last year
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People put a value on human connection, even when AI communicates in the same way
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Cities must embrace the radical retrofit of buildings to meet future challenges
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Office utilisation reaches equilibrium, and demands a rethink of workplace strategy
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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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