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Design for diversity: how to address new workforce demands

Smart building technology that addresses psychological as well as physical wellbeing can play a leading role in designing for a diverse workforce

The worth of workplace wellbeing: why feeling good matters

Introducing environmental wellbeing measures for a health-conscious workforce is no longer a luxury – it is a core competency and can be highly cost-effective

A message to the WORKTECH network: keep the channels open

Faced with the unimagined challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic, WORKTECH is stepping up its online Academy delivery of thought-leadership content at a time of great uncertainty and change

Key themes in the Golden City: what we learnt in San Francisco

With a reputation for future-forward innovation, WORKTECH’s 2019 San Francisco conference didn’t disappoint with discussions of neural experience, progressive wellness and smart human-machine collaboration

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Corporate coworking: why companies are taking it in-house

Coworking started as a social movement but now it is going in-house as corporations seek to create a coworking-like approach in their workplaces. Gabor Nagy of Haworth explains why this is happening

Future Retail: a forum for co-mingling, localism and placemaking

Mixed-use developments are in focus as WORKTECH’s Future Retail 18 conference gets set  to explore physical and digital ways to create vibrant communities in which people work, live and shop

Back to the future: Facebook village faces up to growing housing crisis

New apartments planned by Facebook for its own employees on its Menlo Park campus dust off an old idea pioneered by the titans of the first Industrial Revolution. Is a new paternalism stirring?

A new generation of space in higher education

There is a growing convergence between the modern corporate workplace and learning environments