A lot has changed since the word “remotely” experienced its initial spike in popularity. However, as the ways in which we work continue to evolve, digital connection and tech-supported meetings have become cemented as a critical component for most. Regardless of a company’s in-office or work-from-home policies, collaborating digitally with teammates, clients, or global partners is paramount.
Explore how hybrid work factors into an organization’s long-term real estate or workplace strategy.
What we believe to be the three most impactful things to get right when it comes to workplace strategy and design.
Designers and decision makers have countless choices to make when creating workplaces that inspire, especially now as the stakes are seemingly higher. We believe provoking choice through purposeful workplace design can help foster culture, embrace human centricity, and accounting for all the needs of tomorrow.
When organizations began to respond to the pandemic, almost everyone started to ‘work from home’. Now, as organizations begin developing and, soon we hope, implementing their return plans, there are some phrases being used that may need a bit of clarification, for example ‘return to the office’ and ‘hybrid workplace.’
In the wake of change, schools and universities have had to quickly form innovative ways of educating Gen Z students who have a new set of beliefs, expectations, and desires.
As North American institutions of higher education review the ways in which they currently function, physical space will constitute a major portion of that discussion.
The higher education industry is facing a great resignation brought on by changing needs and requirements, as well as pent-up frustration related to historic experiences.
How does distributed work factor into an organization’s real estate or workplace strategy within the context of increasingly collaborative work processes, an emphasis on positive workplace experiences, and new definitions of engagement and productivity? And how has this been impacted by COVID? It all starts by assessing what has worked since March 2020 and how that may be adapted into a long term distributed work program.
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.
