After decades of optimizing for space, efficiency, and cost, the workplace industry is finally facing a reckoning: the true measure of success isn’t utilization or occupancy—it’s how people feel at work.
The best workplaces today aren’t built around productivity quotas or square footage, but they are designed around how they make workers feel. Outside of physical requirements, this includes how ideas, strategies, and values are championed and communicated internally.
Burnout is rising. Focus is fractured. Productivity is stalling and honestly the five day work week is starting to feel outdated. What if working less actually made your team better?
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.
Holland Design takes us behind the scenes of creating an office that embodies their client J5's human-centric culture.
Project Overview:
Design Firm: Holland Licensed Interior...
In Part Two, Melissa Fisher delves into the dynamic shifts within the modern workplace, urging decision-makers to prioritize employee well-being and foster inclusivity.
Jan Johnson and Kelly Colón share 6 key factors that will enable organizations to migrate from the past office-centric workplace to a human-centered workplace.
With the right tools, metrics, and processes, Cushing Terrell's Sandi Rudy and Jennifer Moore share how we can develop a better user experience at work.
