Is empathy the missing link in tech integration for hybrid?
Building the hybrid workplace requires technology integrators to pay more attention than ever to human behaviour. Canada’s ET Group is using the principles of design thinking to make empathy central to the development process
Utopia or dystopia? How work shapes health in our cities
As our polluted urban centres struggle to be great places to live and work, public health policy is now turning its attention to what happens in the workplace
Can awe-inspiring design features really boost workplace performance?
Spectacular interior design elements were once seen as self-indulgent. Now there is scientific evidence to suggest that inducing a sense of awe can bring commercial benefits
Well by design: stop treating people like cogs in a machine
In the debate about better wellbeing solving the productivity crisis, could greater employee participation in workplace design be an answer? A new study suggests it can
Green Sky Thinking: why work buildings should never be finished
Amid economic turmoil, sustainable initiatives are the first to get the chop. But advocates of new thinking from a green perspective suggest it can provide timeless answers to current property problems
Making light work of constant distractions in open plan space
Having trouble getting ‘into flow’ in the office environment? A new traffic light system promising to cut down interruptions has reopened a familiar debate about the trials of working in open plan
Designing utopia: Chile’s great experiment in cybernetic control
Utopian visions by 37 nations at the inaugural London Design Biennale largely ignored the work economy - Chile’s Counterculture Room proved the exception to the rule
