IFMA World Workplace Asia,
Singapore
05 July 2022
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Creating better workspaces - face to face IWFM Training,
London
05 July 2022
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The Net Zero Workplace,
London and Online
07 July 2022
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Rethinking Workplace Design- a Women In Office Design Event,
Birmingham
07 July 2022
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Design Festival North 2022,
Manchester
12 July 2022
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“Hybrid Working - Utopia or not?” with Marco van Gelder of Veldhoen + Company,
Online
13 July 2022
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Design Insider Talks 2022,
London
14 July 2022
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The Dawn of a Truly Mobile Workforce,
Online
20 July 2022
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May 14, 2013
How ingrained assumptions about the workplace are eroding
by Ros Pomeroy • Comment, Facilities management, Workplace design
Ad agency RKCR © Jefferson Smith
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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