The latest issue of the Insight newsletter features the Trend Report 2013 by Workplace furniture specialist Kinnarps [pictured], which focuses on eight key themes that will influence the workplace of the future. In another look into the future HR body the CIPD unveils a major new discussion document Megatrends: The trends shaping work and working lives. We look at the increasing role played by BYOD in retaining staff, while Mark Eltringham reflects on what Shakespeare can teach us about our obsession with technology. To view this week’s newsletter, which also reveals why London firms are looking to leave the capital and the challenge for FMs in embedding sustainability into business operations, click here.

In the latest issue of the Insight newsletter; a new RSA survey suggests flexible working could give people around five more hours working time per week; advice on keeping the workplace cool; the UK Green Building Council launches Regional Leadership Awards; and plans to redevelop Smithfield market are given the green light. Contributor Andrew Brown shares his thoughts on what Graeme Obree, the Flying Scotsman, can teach us about workplace innovation – while Charles Marks comments on the office design challenges for the expanding technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector. To view this week’s newsletter, which includes video footage of Charles Eames click here.

In the latest issue of the Insight newsletter we are pleased to announce a partnership with Worktech 13, which will be held at the British Museum in London on the 19th and 20th November. Over the next few months look out for content from some of the world’s foremost thinkers on office design and management including Frank Duffy, Philip Ross, Dave Coplin and Greg Lindsay. Also this week, according to two new property reports the London office market continues to thrive; why flexible workers may be limiting their career prospects and how desk size can influence behaviour. Regular contributor Simon Heath warns that the BIFM partnership with DWP may prove an ill-advised and short-lived union and Mark Eltringham hails the Design Museum’s move to the long empty Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. To view this week’s newsletter click here.

The latest issue of the Insight newsletter is available to view online. This week, what Jeremy Clarkson can’t teach us about workplace productivity; the string of surveys, ideas and terminology that can lead commentators to make grand and daft pronouncements about flexible working and why the latest wellness figures show a disturbing lack of fitness amongst the UK workforce. Our regular contributor Simon Heath ponders the somewhat derivative and cautious designs amongst the RIBA awards winners, while our latest contributor Andrew Brown questions the futility of designing a state-of-the-art office in the first place if it’s the management that make the workplace stink. To view this week’s newsletter – which includes an update on the changing structure of the market for corporate offices in the U.S. – click here.

The latest issue of the Insight newsletter is available to view online. This week, Simon Heath illustrates the issue and offers some thoughts on an exciting new project from CBRE. Richard Dawkins has some of his idea  hijacked to make a point about ergonomics. We highlight Nigel Oseland’s and Adrian Burton’s research into the link between office design and performance. A new competition to design a new New Scotland Yard is announced and in Bucharest, Colliers International think they know the sort of office in which millennials would like to work. To view it in your browser, please click here.

The latest issue of the Insight weekly newsletter which goes to over 5000 confirmed subscribers is now available to view online. We’re always on the lookout for stories and voices other than our own so if you’d like to contribute please get in touch. Contributors in this issue include the inestimable Simon Heath, blogger, illustrator, good egg and former facilities manager who offers some thoughts on the proposed merger between the UK’s major FM trade associations. In addition Ros Pomeroy of SpaceLab comments on the firm’s survey of attitudes towards desk ownership, there’s a briefing on key technology trends sponsored by Condeco along with all the usual news, comment, pricking of balloons and the obligatory (if sideways) mentions for BIM, the environment and Generation Y.

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If you don’t already subscribe to our weekly newsletter – Insight – please join the thousands of workplace professionals, facilities managers, real estate experts, suppliers, service providers, architects, designers and specifiers from around the world who do by filling out your name and email on the right. Or see the latest issue here.