Our weekly round up of workplace news from around the web.
- LiquidSpace dives into their data to discover which office amenities teams search for the most.
- Conference rooms are expensive to build and maintain and are routinely used by just one person. Propmodo shares a realistic answer to office environments today–acoustic pods.
- Barclays has faced a backlash after it piloted a system that tracked the time employees spent at their desks. They have since scrapped the system. BBC News asks how common is workplace surveillance and what lengths are employers allowed to go to monitor their staff?
- Livingetc shares a round up of office spaces that are blurring the lines between work and play.
- Verizon’s Antony Tompkins shares via Business Cheif how our workspaces are set to evolve as the modern economy becomes more technologically interconnected.