Tag: office space
Employee health and safety in a work from home environment
With many organisations now looking to adopt more flexible working hours on a permanent basis, the Work From Home (WFH) trend is here to stay. While this offers numerous benefits, there are certain considerations organisations must bear in mind.
Goodbye stainless steel, hello UV lights & apps
The coronavirus pandemic will have long-term effects on offices as the habits and routines developed of a century of work have vanished overnight. While the office has an important future, the 2021 version is likely to be markedly different: materials, layouts and even how we interact with it will all evolve.
The evolution of workspace – HR will need to go to...
The human resources (HR) challenge for this new world of work will be that best answers for dealing with these tectonic changes will likely come from employees, and not from an HR or change expert. Remember our mantra here: we’re in uncharted waters. After five months of this pandemic, we hope we’ve all torn up our company policy documents.
Is working remotely the death knell for offices?
One of the aspects of the coronavirus has been the sudden evacuation of offices and mass adoption of home working. As a result, some real estate investors believe the working from home experiment that’s taken place during this crisis will lead to a long-term decline in demand for offices.
COVID-19: Is anyone going back to the office?
Yes. Now we know that working from home works, many employees will want to keep doing it when the coronavirus crisis fades. Many employers won’t mind because they have already invested in the costs associated with remote working such as cloud set-ups and connectivity and have had some proof that the concept works.
Does the colour of your office walls promote neurodiversity?
Approximately 15 to 20 percent of people are neurodivergent, a collection of conditions that includes autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia.
Transforming workspaces to enable business growth
Around the world, workspace requirements are changing dramatically. Fuelled by an increasingly tech-driven business ecosystem, office spaces have to evolve in order to meet new workplace demands.
Office space mistakes
The office you choose for your business has a direct impact on your employees, your clients, and of course your bottom line. But getting this incredibly important decision wrong could mean devastating consequences.
