We've had a brilliant start to 2016 and wanted to share our exciting news with you...
We were over the moon when global publishers Frame contacted us to see if we would be interested in featuring one of our projects in their latest book ‘The Other Office 2’ - dedicated to workplace design. We jumped at the chance and it’s so great to see our design work for SEB, literally hot off the press.
Steve gives his thoughts on how will our working lives might evolve over the next few years, and further down the line. How will flexible and remote working develop, and what implications are there for the traditional 9-5 working day? And his views on other workplace thought provoking questions. Whilst he doesn't have a crystal ball, it's always interesting to think about how our working lives are changing and evolving and what the future might be for our humble office.
Co-founder, Steve Brewer talks about the benefits of a health workplace and explores the major contributory factors that help create a healthy workplace in the physical environment. As featured in Fresh Business Thinking.
Workplace design is often left to health and safety departments or facilities managers. But evidence shows that HR should have a role to provide benefits for productivity, employee engagement and reduced sickness absence, says Adam Burtt-Jones.
It’s rare that any organisation is totally satisfied with their current culture. As featured in Workplace Insights, we look at how a workplace culture can be changed by design and listening to your employees.
So often the HR team are forgotten when it comes to seek their valuable input about what the 'humans' that they help to 'resource' might actually require in their new working environment... Workplace Insight got in touch to ask us what our thoughts were on why this might be the case.
As the second instalment for i-FM, Adam shares his design thoughts on how to not get too distracted by latest design fades, trends and shiny cool gadgets of latest funky pieces of furniture which can often mislead clients desires. Instead the trick (if there is one) is being able to separate the cool and trendy from the new and valuable.
We're delighted to feature a guest blog piece by Simon Heath, ex-CRE pundit in financial services and global consulting and now freelance artist to comment on workplace issues and that for a workplace to be successful can it be designed to meet these three needs - autonomy, mastery and with purpose?
We spend inordinate amounts of time at work so it makes sense that our workspaces should encourage wellbeing and productivity. Research from the British Council for Offices has revealed that our working environment can have a dramatic impact on our physical and mental wellbeing as well as our productivity. What kind of track record do financial services firms have when it comes to creating a physical working environment that encourages wellbeing and productivity and where does HR fit into all of this?
In the first of a three-part series featured in i-FM, co-founder Adam Burtt-Jones discusses how the convergence of different business disciplines will create better, more intelligent and more efficient workplaces, he focuses on why including everyone in the process will create far better outcomes.
The reason why workplaces so often fail to perform their primary function, to allow users to work productively, is that the custodians of their design are prone to making the same habitual mistakes. Adam goes on to argue that many of the mistakes in the design of today’s spaces are due to nothing more than laziness.
Can one size fit all? That was one of many points that were discussed at Workplace Trends on 15 October. Since then there have been a few blogs of different natures from people like Richard Byatt (good narrative) and Simon Heath (incisive observations). But what can we learn – really?