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On Monday morning, your Managing Director emails you: the lease is ending and the office will move. The lease is ending. The office will move. Options are under review; details are TBD. Weeks pass. Rumours fill the gap. People start asking questions. Will the new office be farther away? Will there be enough desks? Will […]

Walk into modern offices and you’ll see the motifs of sustainability: a living wall in reception, branded reusable mugs in the pantry, perhaps even a rooftop beehive. These are the sort of things that photograph well and tick boxes in annual reports. But what truly makes an office “green”? The uncomfortable truth is that many […]

Explore the trend of office resizing and learn how rightsizing can enhance collaboration and energy performance.

Around half of all Facilities Managers plan to downsize their office space in the next three years. How, and why?

In our recent article, “Is it time for offices to get personal again?” we discussed the importance of personal workspace environments for productivity and morale. There’s another aspect office designers and facilities managers need to address urgently: technology. Modern workplaces face a particularly post-COVID conundrum: Employees finding their home setup better equipped, and more comfortable, […]

The open office was sold as the modern solution to just about any workplace problem for decades now: siloed workers? Open them up (literally) to collaboration. Bad communication? Put everyone in a big room. Worried about productivity? Create a vantage point. And so, walls came down, spaces opened up, and collaboration was supposed to flourish. […]