Insights
Inspiration that transforms workplace design
Allow yourself to be influenced by your surroundings, wherever you may be.
The workplace is always evolving. Design is a transformational response.
Recent authors
Nicholas Schifferle
Director, Global Client Services
Jennifer Mannier
NYU Certified Leadership Coach, Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, LEED AP
Senior Strategist
Ramesh Subramaniam
Design Director, International
Jessica Liu
Director, Healthcare Design Lead
Su-San Tan
Co-working; making the right choices
Once disruptive, co-working spaces are now ubiquitous. Whether you are an entrepreneur, a developer, or a corporate looking to capture the spirit in-house, where you choose to go or the model you adopt is crucial for your success, says Su-San Tan.
Steve Gale
Noise; naughty or nice?
People want noise to be like red wine, a good thing in moderation.
Steve Gale
Ideas about wellbeing, 45 years ago
We dug out an old magazine with ideas about wellbeing from 45 years ago - this is what it had to say about the state of design
Hospitality creep is a sweet fact of modern life
This definition of hospitality, “The friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers”, applies to any decent hotel you can think of, but it doesn’t stop there – it’s unstoppable, says Steve Gale.
Steve Gale
Words often need a lot of unwrapping
This is not an “activity-based workplace” — or is it? Words are great parcels of meaning, but they sometimes need a bit of unwrapping.
Steve Gale
The desk is dead – long live the desk!
People in offices work at desks, don’t they? But even a quick glance around most offices reveals an awful lot of empty ones. Observation surveys show desk occupation rates of about 50% on average – it’s never much higher.
Moira Moser
LEED in the workplace
Moira Moser discusses the value of LEED in the workplace, the development of the design industry and the future of sustainable design.
