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The future of the workplace: looking forward by looking back

I have always been almost pathologically averse to futurology. It’s that smug certainty about the way the world will be that often grates. And right now the ‘future of the office’ is drawing us all in to becoming another of those who claim special insight. However, I have taken heart from listening to Professor Lynda…

November 4, 2020 in Covid response.

Configurational thinking in times of Covid-19 – how to make the most of the workplace layout you already have

It is three months now that offices in the UK have been closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and we are slowly reaching the stage where lockdown restrictions are being eased and organisations are pondering and planning their return to the office. Throughout the past weeks, we have blogged about various Covid-19 related issues and…

June 18, 2020 in Covid response.

Balancing competing objectives when planning a return to the office

Recently, Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, said “The question of whether it is safe to open is clearly a political one and seems to be driven by economic and social imperatives rather than public health.” Leaving politics aside, what this statement highlights neatly is that the Government is…

June 11, 2020 in Covid response.

Planning the return to the office: view from the frontline

Amongst all the comment that already exists out there about the impact of Covid-19 on office design and what office life will therefore be like in the future, I guess there hasn’t been so much written by those people who are actually having to make recommendations for their own organisations. I also guess that this…

June 1, 2020 in Covid response.

The Transition Office: Planning a return to the office as Covid-19 restrictions ease

In our last blog we reported on a webinar that considered what we had learnt from an enforced period of working without an office. In this blog we look forward to some of the variables that organisations will need to consider as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are relaxed around the world. We have called the office…

May 27, 2020 in Covid response.

Working without the office: the massive, unasked for experiment

COVID-19 lockdown week 8, working from home again and tuning in (is that what you do to a webinar?) to Workplace Trends: What will be the “new normal” for the workplace in 2021? with a panel of three world renowned industry speakers. So as to declare my interest up front, one of the panel members…

May 15, 2020 in Covid response.

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