The next workplace:why CEOs are paying attention

This is a video on the design of the modern workplace from the E&Y Strategic Growth Forum. From their summary – Office space frequently ranks as the largest item on a company’s balance sheet and the third-largest cost on its profit and loss statement, yet many companies remain out of step with modern work patterns.…

Why would anyone want to invest time in your workspace?

How gesture shapes the design of the workspace

When we design a new workplace, we’ll typically pay attention to the postures and gestures that people use when going about their work. These observations are a guide to the design of the “places in-between” – the places where much of the value work that moves the organization forward is done. We’ve found that these…

Twenty years of schoolin’ and they put you on the day shift

Dial-up as a metaphor for the workplace of the future?

Periodically, there are these big design challenges that come obliquely into our attention. This week, we found this great definition of logical expectations of the “cloud” and other liberating technologies at The Setup (usesthis.com). I think I’ve referenced this site before, and again, if you’ve not plugged onto it yet, go wander around. It may…

A design “program” is a distracting, useless, and potentially destructive tool

Isn’t it time for corporate real estate to follow people into the future?

I keep going back to a quote from Marshall McLuhan that resonates in so much of what we encounter these days in our work. “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” It vibrated back into my consciousness tonight through a direct quote in an article from the…