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Filing and Storage Audits: A Hidden Opportunity

November 27, 2020 by Toby Godman Leave a Comment

Filing and Storage

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 […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Covid-19, Filing and Storage, Product Reviews, Return to Work, Workplace Design Tagged With: Agile Working, coronavirus, covid19, Filing, filing and storage audit, Filing Audit, office design, Storage, Workplace design

The true cost of office storage: How a filing and storage audit can benefit the environment and save you money

February 5, 2020 by Colin Stuart Leave a Comment

The True Cost of Storage

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 […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Filing and Storage, Workplace Design Tagged With: Filing, Filing Audit, Storage, Storage Audit, Workplace design

Hot desking as an introvert: Designing workplaces for different personality types

July 30, 2019 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Evolution of the Workplace, Wellbeing, Workplace Analysis, Workplace Design Tagged With: Activity based working, agile workplace, Change in the Workplace, communication, extrovert, Flexible working, Hotbox, introvert, Morale, personality types, Productivity, wellbeing, Workplace design, workplace wellbeing

I Quit! – A new White Paper on Staff Attrition

March 4, 2016 by Colin Stuart Leave a Comment

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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 […]

Filed Under: Research Papers Tagged With: Morale, Productivity, Staff Attrition, White Papers, Workplace design

Agile Working in the Public Sector

October 12, 2015 by Colin Stuart Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Agile Working Tagged With: Agile Working, DragonGate, Workplace design

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

Government Soft Landings: Are you ready to take off?

August 14, 2014 by Colin Stuart Leave a Comment

Government Soft Landings - Are you Ready?

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 […]

Filed Under: Change Management Tagged With: BIM, Change Management, Government Soft Landings, Plan of Work, POE, Post Occupation Evaluation, RIBA Plan of Work, Space Utilisation, Staff perception, Staff Perception Questionnaires, 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

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