The Ultimate Flexible Office Design: Trust Edition
Do your employees enjoy their job? Perhaps not as much as you would like. Extensive research on engagement in the workplace, conducted by Gallup, suggests that only 13 percent of employees are engaged at work. This translates to around 900 million “not engaged” and…
The New Rule of Office Refurbishment?
The New Rule of Office Refurbishment? Form Follows Flexibility Follows Function Ever heard the expression “form follows function?” It’s an old design adage which means that office interiors are not designed to show off the designer’s formidable skill. They are…
The Evolution of Office Design: From Hot Desk to Coworker
It’s official — employers considering an office refurbishment don’t want hot desks anymore. Once seen as an eminently sensible space saving practice (though dubious from a noise pollution/team cohesion point of view) hot desking has gone the way big hair, shoulder…
Static Working and Coworking Competition
Let’s be honest…when looking at your office design, the focus can become one of internal politics more often than not, especially when considering an office move or office refurbishment. However, a somewhat unspoken ‘competition’ is often overlooked in office…
Recharging a flabby office culture through exceptional office design
Let’s be clear: you don’t have a culture just because you’re considering an office refurbishment. Office interiors are just another piece of the toolkit that helps you build a culture slowly, so your employees can live and assimilate the company’s values over time. In…
Office Design with the three C’s in mind
Last week we asked, what is Office Culture? And how can a company’s inherent values shine through their office design? This week we’re going to dig deeper into the triple-C of culture-based office design: collision, collaboration and creativity. Why Triple-C office…
Fixing your office design’s culture problem—just what is culture, anyway?
Which company is the poster child for future-forward work culture? For many commentators the answer is Google. The tech giant is renowned for its unique policies, which range from free gourmet food to the time they provided a subsidy of $5000 for purchasing a hybrid…
The workplace of the future begins with diverse, flexible office design
Almost 60% of your workforce is looking for another job—and most of them aren’t leaving in search of better pay and benefits. That’s the conclusion reached by Investors in People, who cite job satisfaction as the number one driver behind the desire to change roles. So…
The Office Design of Dreams: How to Retain Your Talented Workforce
In May 2013, the Harvard Business Review posed an intriguing question: if you wanted to design the best company on earth to work for, what would it be like? The firm of dreams, it turns out, is an organisation where individuals are allowed to be themselves; where…
What Makes Really Great Tech Office Design? (Clue: It’s not all about emulating Google)
It’s well documented that some technology companies believe in the power of serendipity—the idea of driving random encounters between employees through ingenious office design. According to Google—Gmail, Street View and other innovations would not have happened…