flexible working

The Where of Work: a multidisciplinary lens on coodinating the workplace

As work undergoes seismic shifts, new research highlights how coordinated strategies can solve challenges from different stakeholders to design interconnected workplaces

Experience revolution: The intersection of data and behaviour in work environments

A new report examines how shifting employee behaviours and data-driven insights are reshaping workplace dynamics and experiences

Old tensions resurface as return to office gathers pace

Companies are struggling to align business demands with an employee preference for flexibility. Is the office a platform to build culture or ‘a bland grey corporate hellscape?’ The jury is still out

Should the back-to-the-office brigade be branded as dinosaurs?

Amazon’s decision to bring its staff into the office five days a week is exposing divisions in the debate about flexible working this autumn. There’s growing evidence on both sides of the argument

Work-life boundary: global policies set clear guidelines for hybrid work

As ubiquitous technology and flexible work promote an always-on work culture, governments around the world are taking a stand through the introduction of the right to disconnect

Lessons from the BMW factory design that said all workers are equal

Two decades after Zaha Hadid unveiled her plans for BMW’s plant in Leipzig, which elevated the car production line over the heads of office workers, we’re still studying the message that it sent

Why a rigid return to the office will drive high performers away

More companies are enforcing rather than encouraging a return to the office. That’s a bad idea, according to new Gartner research, because it will drain organisations of their top talent

The nine personas that sum up worker behaviour in the flexible era

As employers offer different configurations of remote, hybrid and office-based work, workers are behaving in many different ways too. New US research presents a set of personas that help figure out the puzzle