We have long maintained that the idea of a paperless office is a myth. Whilst technological advances may have helped us to communicate in a different way, and without needing to be face to face, we still invariably reach for pen and paper to take notes or print off documents to make them easier to […]
The true cost of office storage: How a filing and storage audit can benefit the environment and save you money
Office filing and storage doesn’t just take up valuable space it is damaging the environment – is it time to reduce our storage footprint and dump the junk? We love our filing cabinets There’s no getting round it. Our office filing cabinets are full of lovely tangible, paper which can’t delete itself and doesn’t need […]
Hot desking as an introvert: Designing workplaces for different personality types
We’re always hearing about millennials, gender differences, older workers… but what about differences in personality; something that cuts across all of these different groups? How do different personality types feel about agile work, hot desking and open plan? Hotdesking: its something that can be useful for reducing costs, driving engagement and even being a workplace […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
