Expert Insights

Despite the cold weather, more than 55,000 people flocked to Clerkenwell Design Week in London to peruse 50 permanent showrooms and many more temporary exhibitions inside a variety of interesting buildings, popups, and outdoor sites.

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.

Despite the possible onset of a universal and somewhat bland style of workplace, many successful companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Nike, and Virgin Atlantic demonstrate that expressing their unique cultures in their workplace, is a key component in maintaining and uniting a successful workforce.

These innovative workplace solutions must be resilient on all levels to address the urban, communal, organizational, and individual challenges of "The New Normal" for the foreseeable future.

An effective, cost-efficient work environment is an essential consideration for most businesses. So it comes as no surprise cubicle workstations have dominated office design for decades. Yet imagine entering an office where cubicles never really caught on...

The shift toward more collaborative workspaces started a decade ago with forward-thinking companies in Silicon Valley. They were the first in the United States...

Three things will have a radical impact on the workplace in the next five years, according to Ben Waber, president and CEO of Sociometric Solutions -- and the author of "People Analytics."

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.

The technology rich world in which we find ourselves completely supports mobile work. Should we elect or be asked to do so, the infrastructure exists to allow us to be productive from nearly anywhere in the world.

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.

Despite claims that the office is dead, it's not the end. But hopefully, it's the end of obsolete models for designing, delivering, and procuring buildings.

As Director of Property at Telstra, Vito Chiodo manages the largest commercial property portfolio in Australia and the property requirements for Telstra--â„¢s international business.