Recently I was reading an article about office design. Companies like Amazon, Google and Samsung are pulling out all the stops when it comes to creating spaces with all five senses in mind – employing everything from diet to colour theory to increase productivity.
What does Monday morning look like in your mirror? Is there a glint in your eye? Is optimism and energy emanating from every pore? Or do you appear grey and distinctly ho-hum about the whole darn thing, just psyching yourself up to make it through to Friday?
But, when it comes to the world of work, businesses of all shapes and sizes have good reason to want to pin down likelihoods. Office space doesn’t come cheap, and today’s leases are long – so much can be lost by making an investment wrong-turn. There do need to be some fairly stable indicators of how the world of work will look five, ten, fifteen, twenty or more years, for any progress to occur, but what are they?
We all know technology is escalating at speed, with digitisation, artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality impacting the workplace to a greater or lesser extent as every new day dawns.
Time was when you joined a company, worked hard and, if things went your way, you’d end up in a managerial position. But the company shaped you, rather than the other way round. Now it’s all changed.
Technology continues to evolve apace, freeing us all up to work anywhere at anytime. Yet there’s still a widespread notion that every employee needs their own designated workstation, where they stay all day, head down.
The future workplace is something you need to plan for, Gone are the days where you stay in one job for your whole career. It is now commonplace for people to change jobs every year or two. Whether employees are leaving due...
The pitfalls of office fit outs are not always obvious, so we thought we would give you some valuable information to help when you are considering your next move or refurbishment. An office fit out is possibly the largest capital...
The Gensler Workplace Survey Report 2016 is out and the findings make for very interesting reading. More than 2,000 Americans, who work in offices, took part in the Gensler Workplace Survey 2016 and it was found that “90%...
On a recent visit to Auckland I caught up with Ian Cooper from The WorkTools Company. I took the opportunity to discuss acoustics, in particularly Sabine’s, with him.
