behaviour

Out of Office: a design guide to working well at home as we age

How can we work well from home in the hybrid era? A new research guide aims to give home workers top tips on how to stay healthy with a better home office set-up

Why smart lighting is pivotal to the retrofit revolution

Retrofitting commercial buildings will be critical to meet net zero targets and should be considered a strategic investment. In this article, Fagerhult looks at the key role of lighting in energy performance

While CEOs sound off, HR departments are preparing for hybrid

In a new podcast for the Financial Times, Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross, authors of the book Unworking, explain why the return to office needs a better rationale to succeed

Mind games: wellbeing programmes that do little for employees

New research from the University of Oxford indicates that corporate mental health interventions for individuals have little or no effect. Where do employers go next?

Touchstone of trust: are you confident your CEO is honest?

A quarter of employees don’t trust their company leaders to be transparent and less than half think they listen. Why trust will be a make-or-break issue in 2024

Why London still leads the way: is this the unsinkable city?

Despite fire, flooding, plague and political missteps, the UK’s capital shows no signs of slowing down any time soon as it retains its position as a global power

Why we need more walking routes in and around the workplace

New research from Stanford University shows that walking can improve the quality of negotiations – and it’s just the latest in a line of academic studies explaining why we need to get up and walk about

Review of 2023: the struggle to make hybrid working happen

The big future-of-work story of 2023 was the move to adopt hybrid working across a variety of business sectors. Here we recall some of WORKTECH Academy’s key stories on an unfolding drama