In the modern office environment, noise control is crucial for productivity, employee well-being, and overall job satisfaction. As open-plan offices have become the norm, the challenge of managing acoustics has grown. Without proper noise management, [...]
Gaming is all fun and, well, games. And while it is true that time spent playing video games on your computer definitely should be an enjoyable escape, it also has the potential to lead to [...]
We’ve heard so much lately about the benefits of remote or hybrid working. How it improves work-life balance because it saves on all those hours wasted commuting. Over lockdown, some believed they’d woken up [...]
The pandemic changed work forever. ‘Work’ is no longer a place we go. It’s a thing we do. Our attitude to work-life balance has been fundamentally changed by the pandemic. Hybrid work has become a [...]
Soft couch cushions and a cute vintage chair here. Dim lighting and blackout curtains there. Ah, there’s nothing like the comforts of home. Except during a pandemic. Across the nation, new work-from-home and distance learning [...]
Biophilia is obviously not a new concept. The term biophilia was used by German-born American psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), which described biophilia as “the passionate love of life and [...]
The ongoing global pandemic stopping the whole world in its tracks, headlines of climate disasters, political crises or the ongoing threat of cyber attacks – is shaking up the most stable part of our minds. In a world of constant change, is being completely stable a myth? Then again, what exactly is being stable? However, we can focus on things we can affect to thrive in an environment defined by constant transformation. Including fostering resilience on an individual, communal and organisational level.
While office space evolves for a mobile workforce's changing needs and companies continue to embrace open-plan office design, recognising the requirement for office acoustics is becoming increasingly critical. The need for ease of communication, privacy [...]
Nowadays, it seems it's not such an outlandish idea to have a pet at the office — there are actually quite a few advantages. For example, a few years ago, research by Virginia Commonwealth University [...]
Agility and the home office - are these the ‘new normal’ of Level 2 life? And is it a tilt or a re-levelling of the workplace playing field? Nigel Young explores these themes in a 4 [...]
