Office Design

November 13, 2020

Long-term solutions to today's crisis address everything from building systems to WFH taxes.

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Workforce Strategy

Embracing Ergonomics, Even in the Home Office

Ryan Daily

November 11, 2020

Has remote work turned you into a WFH goblin?

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Office Design

Flex Spaces: Designing for ‘Collectiveness’

November 10, 2020

Future offices must account for lower occupancy while fostering engagement — and making everybody comfortable no matter how many or how few people are onsite.

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Workforce Strategy

Bigger Offices, Fewer People?

November 06, 2020

Post-pandemic, businesses are going to have to answer employee demands to keep on working remotely.

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Real Estate/Facilities

Returning to Safer Offices — Eventually

October 23, 2020

Johnson Controls survey offers encouraging signs about enterprises' readiness to bring workers back into facilities that have been upgraded for employee safety.

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Office Design

Return-to-Office Plans: Don’t Lose Sight of Accessibility

Ryan Daily

October 08, 2020

Low-touch workspaces and voice-enabled meeting rooms sound great for most. But what about for those workers with a disability?

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Work colleagues chatting in office pantry

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Office Design

Returning to Physical Proximity, One Step at a Time

September 29, 2020

Digital connectivity will smooth the way.

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Real Estate/Facilities

Get WELL in this Time of Crisis & Beyond

September 22, 2020

IWBI has released the latest iteration of its foundational standard for employee health and well-being.

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From Hot Desking to No Desking

September 14, 2020

Do you need to account for an individual workstation for everybody working in the office on any given day? Perhaps not.

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Employee Experience

Office Noise: Love it or Leave it?

September 10, 2020

Turns out, some people really do miss the sounds of the open office.

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Learning to Love Hot Desking

September 04, 2020

This is one of the only ways businesses are going to be able to even consider a return to the office.

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What’s Old Is New: Pod as Cubicle

Ryan Daily

August 27, 2020

Is the future of the open office siloed workstations?

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Two women professionals social distancing in the office

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Social Distancing and the Return to Office

July 27, 2020

Most enterprises aren’t going to go back to the pre-pandemic seating arrangement and density, even if they’re within CDC guidelines.

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