FMJ reports on Workplace Week International 2020 (9-13 November), a virtual festival that explored how world leading organisations are transforming the way they work In the summer, Peter Cheese, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) ...
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One of COVID-19’s most significant legacies will be the reimagining of our collective experience of work – starting with the relationship between the digital and physical workplace. Helen Strother interviewed an interior design and a communications expert to find out ...
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Neil McLocklin, Head of Strategic Consultancy, Knight Frank on the development of a roadmap to how businesses can prepare to go back to the office Pro-longed working from home has been a challenge for many. There is an enormous desire ...
Read More »Getting ready for the new workplace norm
Author: Richard Guy, Country Sales Manager, Ergotron UK & Ireland With lockdown restrictions finally easing, many office workers who have been working from home are preparing to receive the call that they will soon resume working at desks they have ...
Read More »Changing ideas
Think differently was the overriding message of the Workplace Trends Climate Change and The Workplace: Towards Net Zero Carbon event. Andrew Brown one of the chairs of the day reports As the Government is often keen on telling us: we ...
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Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s newly designed UK HQ above its Westfield London centre reflects changing times in more ways than one Earlier this year, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the owner of London’s well-known shopping destinations, relocated its UK headquarters from High Holborn to a new space ...
Read More »Tomorrow’s people
Sarah Taylor, Managing Director of BRITA UK, shares advice on how to optimise today’s busy office space for the newest generation in the workforce Picture the average office a quarter of a century ago and compare it with one today. ...
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Eve Fitzhenry, Head of Marketing at Boss Design, explains why quiet space free of distractions is an essential component of modern workplace layouts If you ask office workers what they find most irritating and unproductive about their workplace, they are ...
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With square footage at a premium in many locations, organisations are under pressure to review their use of space. Cyril Parsons of Office Principles makes the case for utilising external meeting facilities The concept of regularly using external space to ...
Read More »All in the mind
Changing mindsets through leadership was the topic for discussion at the latest Quora Smartworking Summit, which took place in September at ExCeL London Now in their 17th year, Smartworking Summits feature key decision-makers, speaking under Chatham House rules, who openly ...
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