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Are You Remotely Happy? 3 ways to engage remote workers in workplace wellbeing initiatives

February 14, 2019 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

A happy workplace makes a happy worker. Makes sense doesn’t it? Companies across the nation appear to believe so, as evidenced by the creation of new roles like ‘Chief Happiness Officers’ within corporations. This is just one way that we’re starting to see growing commitment to employee wellbeing. But with the rise of remote working (and with […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Evolution of the Workplace Tagged With: Agile Working, Change in the Workplace, Flexible working, Knowledge Workers, Morale, Productivity, work, Workplace

Change in the Workplace –what motivates people at work?

February 22, 2015 by Colin Stuart Leave a Comment

Change in the Workplace

“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 […]

Filed Under: Change Management Tagged With: Change in the Workplace, History of Workplace Design, Knowledge Workers, Morale

With unlimited vacation, when will the work get done?

December 10, 2014 by Colin Stuart Leave a Comment

Unlimited Vacation

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 […]

Filed Under: Agile Working Tagged With: 4 day week, ABW, Activity based working, Agile Working, Aptify, Change Management, Knowledge Workers, Output management, Productivity, Richard Branson, ROWE, Unlimited vacations, Virgin, Workplace design

Reeducation, Reeducation, Reeducation: Graduates In The Workplace

April 7, 2014 by Colin Stuart 2 Comments

Graduates and the office environment

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” […]

Filed Under: Workplace Analysis Tagged With: Generation Z, Graduates, Graduates in the workplace, Knowledge Workers, Millenials, Output management, Workplace, Workplace design

Why has office design not kept pace with the modern work force?

September 18, 2013 by Colin Stuart 4 Comments

cartoon why office design not evolved

The design of offices and the way they are utilised has not fundamentally changed for over 120 years. Recent technological advances have been used to squeeze more efficiency out of our office space but that will only give increasingly smaller returns and eventually impact on morale and productivity.  To adapt to the pressures and drivers […]

Filed Under: Evolution of the Workplace Tagged With: Frank Duffy, History of Workplace Design, Jeremy Myerson, Knowledge Workers

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