How the New Economy is Changing the Workplace, Part II
In this installment, Bob Fox explores how the workplace affects the long-term sustainability of your business.
In this installment, Bob Fox explores how the workplace affects the long-term sustainability of your business.
As the economy shifts, so do the spaces that best support the innovation and ideas necessary to sustaining a business.
A perspective on the industry’s search for a new standard for measuring the performance of space.
We asked a group of designers to sketch spaces for collaboration. Here’s what we got.
An inside look at the research project that is bringing together industry experts to determine what drives productivity in the workplace.
Over the course of two days at WORKTECH NY, the focus of conversations shifted from serendipity to data. Increasingly, we are measuring the performance of our designs very differently than we were just a few years ago.
I walked away from CIFF realizing the huge potential U.S. manufactures have in looking to China for partnerships. If we’re willing to provide them with our innovation and design, they could match us with impressive manufacturing power and quality.
As we learn more and become smarter about the workplace, we begin to see different perspectives that often conflict. They’re not just tough to integrate into an organization’s culture, but they can seem unpredictable and un-measurable.
This is the stance John Vivadelli takes. Through his firm Agilquest, he’s spent decades working with design firms and corporate decision-makers who do just this kind of extrapolation when planning their office designs and estimating associated overhead costs.
Even under what might be considered “normal” circumstances, the Super-Nucleus model is a logical, rational leadership system that can better organize large corporations. The model could enable them to adapt to a variety of situations and conditions; thus, the biological metaphor.
There is a convergence of issues developing that will lead to a highly flexible and collaborative workplace experience. Successfully achieving this involves a unique process that integrates IT, real estate, and HR teams.
The best part was they represented different perspectives and did not always agree.