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…
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…
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…
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…
I am sitting in the new SamsungKX space as I’m writing this, wanting to find out what kind of place this is and whether I can use it as my (temporary) workplace. Not a shop! That’s the loudest and clearest message I’m getting as I approach from Kings Cross station, where adverts for SamsungKX are…
brainybirdz are sometimes commissioned to write articles and blogs for other organisations. This is a re-post of a blog written for Open Sensors earlier this month, where we dig into existing scholarly research studies to understand whether Activity Based Working actually works. Designing an activity based workspace is increasingly becoming the desired aspiration as a…
brainybirdz co-founder Ros Pomeroy reflects on her recent build project in Sri Lanka and on the lessons this throws up for workplace design. I am fortunate. I know that. I co-own a 5 acre tea estate in Sri Lanka. I have fallen in love with the country; the country where my husband was born. I…
I’ve only met Neil Usher once, but now I’d definitely like to get to know him better. In his new book ‘The Elemental Workplace’, Neil reveals himself as a natural writer with strong opinions – on a soapbox – but always authoritative and speaking to the reader as an adult. As I read the 200…
The run up to Christmas is a timely reminder of the perils of too much choice. I don’t watch much telly, but I have already become aware of the annual barrage of perfume adverts, for brands which I honestly can’t tell apart. And that is before we mention the now traditional cute supermarket ads. All…
In our fourth and final blog in our series, we discuss the organisational reality of workplace data collection. The truth is organisations and businesses of all kinds routinely collect data. The most obvious being financial results. How many products have been sold this week? What is our total revenue for the year? How much have costs…
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