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With 69% of U.S. companies adopting hybrid working, most offices designed pre-pandemic will not optimize occupancy and enable productivity.

Spaghetti is still popular on the office design menu it seems. I’m drawing parallels of course. The “throw spaghetti and see how much...

There are many misconceptions around creating a workplace that delivers for today’s way of working. We see far too many companies...

This is what I call a coffee and cookie article, you'll need both as it will take some time to read as we dive into important details on...

Why? Because what we’re seeing as an industry (by that I mean us specialist advisors to corporate real estate and workplace...

3 Reasons to Speak With a Workplace Consultant Before Briefing Your Broker Here’s a quick summary of three reasons why a company would...

Engaging employees in workplace projects is not as hard as it seems. Here are some of the common misconceptions: 1. Excuse: It creates...

In this study by Yuye Ding and Mark (Shuai) Ma at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, the conclusion...

As the C-Suite attention turns from the pandemic, to sustaining revenue and profitability through an inflationary time and economic...

In the wake of the pandemic, law firms underwent a transformative shift in how they worked, and this is now playing out in the design of...

There are some relatively straightforward actions companies can take to help successfully embed hybrid working. Here’s just one we feel...

Do you group all of your employees into one level of competency, experience, skills, productivity, outputs and pay? No, I thought not....

Wishing everyone a fabulous holiday!

There’s no need for gambling or leaps of faith with your real estate. Reduce risk with an "Engage them and they will come" approach.

Let’s look at the changing needs of real estate occupiers. Office occupancy levels have, by most metrics, averaged around 50% of...

What the pandemic has taught us. Allowing employees greater flexibility and choice about where and when they work, will most likely...

In my last post I shared a hack to improve a workplace at low or zero cost, by reducing office space to densify the occupants, improving...

The office feels dead, no sense of team and very few people want to come in. This is not a new challenge but I’ve seen it time and again...

We're seeing companies settle into a natural cadence of working this October. For some the way of working has been discussed, formalized,...

Simply because the technology can do the job or is popular doesn't guarantee user-friendliness or employees' willingness to adapt to it.

Does any of this sound familiar? You’re seeing about 25-35% of employees using your offices, but you can spin that to say around 80% use...

It really is time to put the differences of our past behind us, and focus on the future. There will always be opinions and zeitgeists at...

In an age where data is more available than ever, measuring does not guarantee understanding. The path from measuring workplace usage to...