Columnists
November 5, 2015
Data transforms the roles of offices and the people who manage them
by Philip Ross • Comment, Facilities management, Technology, Workplace
The modern workplace creates the physical,technological and cultural point of intersection between a number of abstract or movable facets of the business, including people, technology, culture and creativity. That has always been true to a large extent but with the growing complexity of exactly how, when and where we work, this role of the office as […]
October 27, 2015
Seven ways your choice of new office may boost business performance 0
by Darren Bilsborough • Comment, Facilities management, Property
There are generally four main reasons why a business considers changing to new office space: your business is growing and your existing office can’t be expanded to accommodate that growth; your need for office space is reducing due to a change in business circumstances; your office lease is nearing expiration: you are prepared to explore […]
October 26, 2015
An updated green building standard designed to meet wider business objectives 0
by Sue Gregson • Comment, Facilities management, Legal news, Property
The publication in September 2015 of the revised ISO 14001 Global Environmental Management Standard has been heralded as a move that will “shift business focus on the environment from compliance with regulations and direct operations, to placing the environment at the heart of thinking and strategy.” This will assist businesses around the world to respond to […]
October 22, 2015
Seven ways to make your office work for different workstyles 0
by Brittney Herrera • Comment, Flexible working, Wellbeing, Workplace design
The conversation around office space is shifting. Baby Boomers brought us cubicles, and as millennials joined the workforce, so did the trend of a collaborative, open office. Now, as Generation Z begins to make its way into the workforce, it’s more important than ever to make sure that your office appeals to all generations, and […]
October 21, 2015
Far fewer working women than men receive an annual bonus 0
by Sara Bean • Comment, News, Workplace
Nearly three quarters of the UK’s working women don’t receive any form of annual bonus. Glassdoor’s latest UK Employment Confidence Survey found that only 29 percent of women at work receive a bonus, compared to 44 percent of men, which presumably is one reason why 44 percent of men remain positive about the outlook for their employer […]
October 14, 2015
Sitting down is no worse than standing for long periods, claims new study 0
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, News, Wellbeing, Workplace design
As we’ve always argued, the now commonly parroted idea that ‘sitting is the new smoking’ is extremely dubious and has led to a degree of hysteria about the effects of sedentary work and the substitution of one harmful extreme for another. Now a new peer reviewed study from researchers in the UK and Australia confirms […]
October 12, 2015
How workplace design is more closely reflecting how we actually work 0
by Adrian Campbell • Comment, Flexible working, Workplace design
In years gone by, a ‘one size fits all’ approach to office design might have been the norm, but as the decades have progressed, so too have the options available to businesses designing ‘homes from home’ for their office-based workforces. As new interpretations of the office environment proliferated, so the open plan model came to into […]
October 11, 2015
How biodynamic lighting stimulates sense and performance at work 0
by Peter Young • Comment, Products, Wellbeing, Workplace design
Biodynamic lighting is an artificial light source that replicates the dynamic variations of daylight and sunlight through a light management system. Up until recent times, it was commonly believed that light was only needed for seeing. However, in 2001, an American scientist, G. C. Brainard discovered a circadian photoreceptor in the retina, which receives a […]
October 7, 2015
Why Jeremy Hunt is wrong about the need to work long hours 0
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Flexible working, Wellbeing, Workplace
This week the UK’s Health Secretary found himself at the centre of a storm because of some comments he’d made suggesting that eroding one of the UK’s welfare platforms would encourage people to work as hard as the ‘Chinese and Americans’. Most of the backlash against these comments was political, so make your own mind […]
October 2, 2015
For once and for all, please stop with this ‘death of the office’ stuff 0
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Furniture, Property, Technology, Workplace design
I was involved in a meeting with an office fit-out company this week which involved a discussion of how their clients can develop misconceptions about the extent to which their contemporaries are introducing new office design and management models based on agile working, shared space, mobile technology and all that other good stuff. This presents a […]
November 9, 2015
Business success is progressively less related to employment levels 0
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Technology, Workplace, Workplace design
If you want to understand exactly how the economy has changed over the last few decades, one of the most important statistics is also one of the least remarked upon. It is the growing disconnect between a firm’s earnings and the number of people it employs, a statistic that puts paid to the lie that […]