Expert Insights

SmithGroup's Kerri McShea shares how "phygital" retail strategies can transform workplace design, blending physical and digital experiences to boost collaboration, personalization, and employee engagement in hybrid work environments.

Three experts from UNS share how cognitive science, neuroaesthetics, and workplace design strategies are reshaping hybrid offices to enhance focus, reduce stress, and attract employees back to the workplace.

Countries face different AI challenges, whether facing aging workforces or surging youth populations, but the urgent need for reskilling is the common thread.

RoehrSchmitt Architecture's Chris Schmitt acknowledges the evolution of work and highlights ways offices can catch up to modern times.

Explore the "remote work paradox"—why 31% of remote workers feel engaged, yet 64% report suffering well-being, and how AI, hybrid models, and workplace design play into these challenges.

Learn how airport lounge design principles—like multisensory welcomes and wellness-focused spaces—can inspire innovative workplace environments that boost creativity, collaboration, and well-being.

Work Location as a Service (WLaaS) isn’t just a new format. It’s the future infrastructure of work.

Architect and workplace thought leader Hana Kassem and renowned cultural anthropologist Melissa Fisher explore how using ethnographic insights can inform workplace design and enable the integration of ‘third places’ into the workplace to foster social cohesion and community.

Baker Barrios Architect's Marilyn Russell shares how to design a multigenerational workplace that blends the best of Baby Boomer experience, Gen X pragmatism, Millennial collaboration, and Gen Z digital fluency—creating an office where every generation thrives.

Catch Cynthia Milota's new insights and the latest thinking on circular strategies for the built environment gained from the Circularity conference.

SmithGroup's Alex Leadon explores the evolving concept of 'first, second, and third places' in the context of work and community, highlighting how beauty, purpose, and meaning shape our emotional connection to physical spaces."

Perkins+Will's Stephen Lenz and Joyce Lai demonstrate how today’s top workplace design strategies create agile, inclusive offices that support every generation and drive employee engagement.