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 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.