Workplace Stress. An unemployed graduate is plagued by eczema. A bereaved woman suffers a heart attack. A divorced man develops high blood pressure. Are these circumstances linked… or mere coincidences? Stress is an ever-present influence on our health and well-being, therefore awareness of its impact is critical. The UK Chief Medical Officer raised concerns in […]
Are sit-stand desks the solution to back pain at work?
Sit-stand desks have been hailed as the answer to back and neck pain at work, but what is the evidence that they are effective? This article from Personnel Today explores the hotly contested topic of sit stand, with comments from Colin Stuart on the matter. “You don’t need a fancy desk to get your people to move about more, nor do you need any diktats from H […]
Changing Spaces – Public Sector Building
Many public sector workplaces are in need of improvement, but how can critical change to these working environments be made on a shoestring budget? Colin Stuart discusses workplace improvement – without colossal costs… “The key to improving the workplace on a budget lies foremost in understanding your current space, identifying ways of making savings, considering […]
I Quit! – A new White Paper on Staff Attrition
Whether a company sells, invents or builds, all businesses share one universal similarity: an organisation can’t move forward without people. With the total cost of an employee leaving in excess of the employee’s annual salary, retaining staff and moving forward in harmony means the difference between flourishing and dying for any organisation looking to prosper in […]
A 4-Day Working Week? – A new White Paper
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay titled “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In this work, Keynes forecasted that in one hundred years hence, we would be working a 15-hour week. Yet today, nearly a century on, we revel in material opulence unimagined by the likes of Keynes, but we still persist with work […]
Standing Desks – A new White Paper
Standing desks are in. Once the province of Scandinavian design magazines, the stand-up desk is extending to the world of corporate drones over here in the rest of Europe. And, as it appears, for good reason — there’s an increasing array of medical evidence that hours of uninterrupted sitting can be surprisingly bad for your health. […]
Hotbox Review – Six mobile storage boxes for agile working
Many organisations are embracing agile working; they’ve said goodbye to the traditional set up of one desk allocated to each employee and have made the transition to having shared workspaces and desk sharing. However, this is not without it’s challenges. The removal of traditional one-to-one desk allocations in the workspace means that many employers are […]
Human behaviour – The future of workplace analytics
Measuring the efficiency of the office environment is about to be revolutionised through the analysis of human behaviour. In recent years, the benefits of understanding exactly how well a workspace functions have become widely recognised and as a result, many forward thinking organisations are already conducting regular studies to monitor utilisation. Over time, the tools […]
Launch of workplace behaviour analysis service ‘ActivityLOOK’
This week we are launching a groundbreaking workplace analysis service- ‘ActivityLOOK’. The service has been designed to monitor and capture details of human working behaviour, empowering organisations with an in-depth insight into patterns of activity. Join us here on Wednesday 11th November from 4-7pm for the launch which will be live blogged and tweeted from the venue […]
Agile Working in the Public Sector
The civil service is currently facing the challenge of meeting increasing demand for provision of high quality services, without allowing tax rates to go through the roof. There is no doubt that to respond to these challenges the government estate must change – and it is changing. The general viewpoint is now very much that […]
