The Intentional Office
To make the office “worth the commute” customers are seeking more adaptable individual spaces, flexible collaborative spaces, social settings to create culture, shared focus spaces to think, and seamless connection experiences for remote participants. When planning a workspace with intentionality, the result is thoughtfulness and longevity with the ways the office supports a workforce.
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Measuring What Matters
Blog, Planning and Design
We’ve all been using the same supply management metrics – SF/person, cost/SF, cost/person – to measure the relative effectiveness of the workplace; these metrics are still very relevant and important.
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Becoming Agile
Blog, Planning and Design
Agile is a term that is being used more and more relative to the workplace. The challenge is that it has different definitions to different groups – FM’s and designers use it to define a way of planning space and/or a way to work.
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Our Workplaces Will Change—Let’s Make it Count
Blog, Planning and Design
Our Workplace Advisory team recently got together with Dr. Sally Augustin to discuss the research we had commissioned her to pull together regarding environmental psychology considerations in the interim/post-COVID workplace. It was a great conversation; we all asked questions, brainstormed ideas, and challenged each other. So how might a workplace embody those positive vibes? By becoming a place where one feels safe + connected + inspired.
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How to Know If We’re Getting Social Cohesion Right
Blog, Planning and Design
This is the second in a series of six posts about social cohesion, an emerging idea about organizational success that will shape the future of workplaces.
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Life Might Not Be Fair, but Our Organizations Should Be
Blog, Planning and Design
This is the third in a series of six posts about social cohesion, an emerging idea about organizational success that will shape the future of workplaces.
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Get Real About How Your Organization Really Works
Blog, Planning and Design
This is the fourth in a series of six posts about social cohesion, an emerging idea about organizational success that will shape the future of workplaces.
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The Evolving Workplace: How to Become and Stay Relevant
Blog, Planning and Design
Given all that is being discussed and prognosticated these days about what’s next in workplace-making we’re adding to this rich conversation with several viewpoints we’d like to share.
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The Transition from Closed Offices to Open Plan
Blog, Planning and Design
Moving out of closed offices into open plan is one of the more difficult workplace changes to make, since it often also has political and emotional issues tied to it.
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Our Organizations and Workplaces Need a New North Star
Blog, Planning and Design
This is the first in a series of six posts about social cohesion, an emerging idea about organizational success that will shape the future of workplaces.
