I have had the pleasure of sitting through A LOT of workplace technology demos that claim they are able to solve the problem of hybrid working and the office. Typically, within 10 minutes of the start of the demo they prove that they have not had to deal with the real-world issues that come from…
Tag: experience
Activity-based workplaces have a fundamental flaw you must address upfront or be in danger of a bad workplace experience.
Everyone is about hybrid working. Which naturally changes the way people use the office. This leads us to ask what they are doing in the office. And all this eventually leads to the question: What if I design my workplace around these activities my employees perform? Surely, designing around activities is an efficient methodology. The…
Corporate Real Estate should always be first about people. Offices are a byproduct of giving people a space to excel within.
It is incredibly easy for real estate people to focus on the office. Most of our metrics are space first because that is what we can control. Cost per square foot, square feet per person, square feet per desk, and desk per person are all space-centric. Sure, some of the have people as a denominator,…
Improving Employee Experience goes hand-in-hand with reducing real estate costs. 5 areas to reduce costs while improving the experience.
There is a stereotype that improving employee experience within a workplace requires increasing costs. Companies often attempt this approach in practice but it rarely actually works for a few obvious reasons when you step back and think about it. Cost and experience are related but it follows a curve. The more you spend, the more…
If you mandate 3 days a week in the office, you are not offering hybrid work opportunities.
Mandates are the rage yet again. We went through this in the middle of 2022 when COVID-19 restrictions first began disappearing. Then again at the end of 2022. Now again in early 2023. It is a never-ending hot topic for business leaders who have no clue how their employees worked before the pandemic, how they…
Should your workplace try to draw employees back into the office?
One of the regular questions I hear among corporate real estate professionals is how to bring employees back into the office through workplace design. It’s a fascinating question to me because it assumes a couple of interesting beliefs: It is better for employees to be in the office than out of the office Workplaces should…