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Innovative workspaces: The most popular office space benefits

Offices with onsite facilities such as gyms, nap rooms, gardens, cafes can help employees enhance their overall wellbeing, productivity, and work-life balance. These amenities can promote physical fitness, mental relaxation, and social interaction, fostering a healthier and more enjoyable work ...

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Office reset

The world of work may be changing but the physical office is here to stay, it’s up to us how we use it, writes Sam Addison, Head of Project Management at Colliers real estate The global pandemic necessitated, and accelerated, ...

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Businesses are losing neurodivergent talent due to the design of office environments

October is ADHD Awareness Month. To mark it, inclusive workplace design specialist Motionspot surveyed 1,000 neurodivergent office workers and 1,000 neurotypical office workers about the key issues they face working in offices. The growing number of adults receiving an ADHD ...

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Staff missing their personal space in the office

Despite hot-desking becoming more common in the hybrid world of work, staff prefer to have their own personal space, according to a new study. Global workplace creation expert Unispace’s ‘Returning for Good’ study – which surveyed 9,500 office workers and ...

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AstraZeneca creates a wellbeing-first work environment

The global, science-led biopharmaceutical company has installed the latest generation of living walls from Finnish indoor nature technology company, Naava, as part of the workplace-wellbeing-first design of its new relocated offices to the business and innovation hub of Espoo’s Keilaniemi ...

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BCO releases new design guidance for greener and healthier offices

Responding to challenges emerging from the pandemic and the accelerating need for the built environment to respond to climate change, the British Council for Offices (BCO) has released an early update to its Guide to Specification, which provides expert advice on ...

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Two-thirds of employees want ‘hotel-style’ amenities at the office

A new survey of 6,000+ US, UK, and Australian office workers has found that employees want more ‘hotel-style’ amenities such as areas for socialising, state-of-the-art infrastructure, outdoor spaces, onsite cafes, air conditioning, and flexible work facilities to entice them back ...

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Noisy workplaces are damaging productivity and health for office workers

Noisy offices are lowering productivity, with 60 per cent of office workers unable to concentrate and delivering poor quality work due to loud workspaces, according to a new study by Oscar Acoustics. The specialists in architectural acoustic finishes, has released ...

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Flowscape makes Hybrid working possible

Work is what we do, not where we go. Every workplace has to be an environment that allows for individual needs as well as the team dynamic; it must provide space for creativity and productivity. It has to be frictionless. ...

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British Council for Offices proposes changes to key design criteria in the BCO Guide to Specification

The British Council for Offices (BCO) has released a position paper proposing updated key design criteria, as part of its most recognised publication, the BCO Guide to Specification. The guide, which is normally published every four or five years, provides ...

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