Columnists
December 19, 2023
Flexible working is delivering the gift of seasonal productivity
December 19, 2023
How employers should navigate the ICO’s guidance on monitoring workers
by Anthony Woolich and Michelle Chance • Comment, Technology
As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, so does the prevalence of firms monitoring workers and the sophistication of the tools available to employers to monitor their staff’s activities. Hand in hand with the increasing prevalence of workplace monitoring tools are concerns that their excessive use may infringe workers’ data protection and privacy […]
December 16, 2023
Hybrid working: the importance of having the right strategy
by Andrew Mawson • Comment, Flexible working
Hybrid working changes everything it seems. To make it work successfully we need changes in the way people need to be managed, trained and inducted. It changes the needs for communication and social connectivity, goal setting and connection to vision. It requires greater clarity on what is acceptable and what isn’t. Employees must take on […]
December 8, 2023
Inclusive office design is essential if we want offices to be worth the commute
by Guzman de Yarza Blache • Comment, Workplace design
Corporate culture has fundamentally changed since the pandemic and with it, so has the way employees interact with the office. This has put leaders under pressure to create experiences for employees that complement, and in some ways even compete with, the comforts of home. Organisations now understand the immense potential for sustainable, inclusive office design, […]
December 7, 2023
What ever happened to The Great Resignation?
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Wellbeing
December 7, 2023
Has digital transformation led to an upsurge in workplace disinformation?
by Garry Paxinos • Comment, Technology
You don’t have to look far to find misinformation. Just a few weeks ago, amid the aftermath of the coup in Niger, online platforms were being inundated with false information, intensifying tensions surrounding the nation’s future. This included erroneous videos on TikTok and Twitter suggesting the presence of Wagner Group (Russian state-funded) fighters, false claims […]
December 3, 2023
Tailored workplace management for modern organisations
by Paul Phillips • Comment, Technology, Workplace design
Workplace management used to be a secondary concern for organisations in the past, but it has now become a top priority. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the process of digital transformation, leading to the implementation of new processes and technologies that focus on facilitating remote and at-home work. As a result of these changes, organisations […]
November 29, 2023
Creating the epicentre: unlocking the untold benefits of next-generation office spaces
by Nathan Thomas • Comment, Flexible working, Property, Technology
Many associate the notion of futuristic office spaces, filled with equipment like sleep pods and beer taps, with companies that have a young workforce or challenger brand identity. The association is often linked to tech giants like Google, which created quite a stir when it originally revealed its indoor slides. Whilst the inclusion of playground […]
November 24, 2023
The final word on… workplace trends
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Flexible working, Workplace design
You would not believe the number of firms that ask us to publish a list of workplace trends each week. Or maybe you would, given the number that have appeared – and are appearing -elsewhere. Each firm perhaps convinced they are saying something original, unique or interesting, or maybe simply convinced they stand out in […]
November 20, 2023
Oscillate wildly between the death of the office and the death of hybrid working
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Flexible working
It’s March 2020, very early days of lockdowns and the first catastrophising headlines appear. Is this the death of the office? Is this the death of handshakes? Is this the death of the open plan? I dismissed them at the time in this piece from March the 19th, citing Betteridge’s Law which states: “any headline […]
December 21, 2023
A break in the workspace-time continuum
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Wellbeing
The fracturing of time and place underlies every one of the great workplace issues of our time. Everything that springs from this – the where, when, how, what and why of work – is defined by the shattering of any fixed idea we may once have had of a time and a place to work. […]