Graham Bird muses on the true nature of our interactions at work, and how we might learn about them. Walking over the Sussex South Downs you can’t but notice the seemingly random well-worn tracks that crisscross the countryside. Often the shortest or easiest route between two points and usually leading to a place of interest, […]
The Sedentary Epidemic: Don’t force people to stand up to work
Following a recent publication by The British Journal of Sports Medicine* of ‘The Sedentary Office’, an Expert Statement commissioned by Active Working CIC with Public Health England, the press in the UK published a number of articles about the ‘sedentary epidemic’ including these in the Guardian, Telegraph, Express and Daily Mail. The Guardian also published […]
10 Questions with…Colin Stuart
A version of this article originally appeared in the April 2015 issue of Tomorrow’s FM Each month we ask an industry professional the Tomorrow’s FM 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to Colin Stuart, Managing Director of Baker Stuart, the provider of workplace consultancy services. 1. What was your first job? A friend of mine and I clubbed […]
So you are moving? What to consider when relocating offices – Move Management Checklist
Are you a Facilities Manager, an Office Manager, or the PA to the Managing Director? Have you just had the meeting with your MD who tells you that “we are moving offices and guess what – your running the project!”? Then this article is for you… The Golden Rule Firstly and most importantly, the best piece of […]
Benefits of Flexible Working for Employers
The world has always changed, however the pace of change seems to be accelerating. New advances in IT are changing the way we work and our relationship with the office. In particular, if flexible working is offered to employees, this has the potential to drive and unlock profound changes to society. Firstly, we need to consider why we […]
Change in the Workplace –what motivates people at work?
“For the vast majority of organisations their human capital is their most valuable and important asset… the workplace needs to be seen as an investment to unlock the value of this human capital.” Colin Stuart, Value Rhetoric and Cost Reality, 2012 Work places have evolved throughout history, but not always to the benefit of worker […]
With unlimited vacation, when will the work get done?
Richard Branson, the Virgin Group founder, was in the news recently as he had taken the bold move of giving his staff unlimited vacation time. But he is not the first to take such an enlightened step. A growing number of organisations are finding that by trusting their staff, the rewards to the business in […]
Government Soft Landings: Are you ready to take off?
This article explains Government Soft Landings from the point of view of change management, move management and office relocation, particularly in the public sector. Why do you need to land softly? Have you worked on a multi-million pound building project for your employers only to find within the first few months of occupation that the […]
Houston, we have a problem. Can you measure productivity in the office?
Can you measure productivity in the office? Well Yes and No. Yet another seminar and yet another opinion on how we measure productivity in the office. Well the problem lies in the question itself – What are we measuring? What is productivity? What do we mean by ‘the office environment? Before I became what my […]
Reeducation, Reeducation, Reeducation: Graduates In The Workplace
As we have seen from our previous blog the design of the vast majority of modern workplaces has not evolved in 120 years. In this article, we question whether the design of our current workplaces is getting the most the new crop of “generation Z” graduates entering our workplace? Many modern workplaces are still designed on archaic “Taylorist” […]
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