Utopia or dystopia? How work shapes health in our cities
As our polluted urban centres struggle to be great places to live and work, public health policy is now turning its attention to what happens in the workplace
Go for green: why sustainability is back on the radar in 2019
Sustainable design has been pushed down the corporate agenda by the buzzwords of wellbeing and amenity. Now it’s back – driven by millennial commitment to climate change
Is the rise of the super-experience the next frontier in workplace design?
In the race for talent, improving workplace experience is now on the radar of every organisation. But as new technologies and design practices raise the stakes in what can be achieved, are we now entering the era of the super-experience?
Networked innovation: from outside in to inside out
Workplace design has increasingly recognised the need to bring the outside in. Now, successfully connecting to new innovation ecosystems means thinking from the inside out
Bauhaus at 100: how does its workplace legacy stand up?
As the fountainhead of modern architecture, Germany’s Bauhaus design school controversially provided the visual basis for management efficiency and control. So why do we still revere it today?
Spontaneous, social and green: London lifts the lid on the new workplace
In the search for more innovation and wellbeing in the workplace, could chance encounters and biophilic design be a winning combination? Speakers at WORKTECH London’s 2018 conference suggested how the future might unfold
Why Bloomberg’s London office is in a class of its own
Against all expectation, the top award in British architecture, the RIBA Stirling Prize, has been given to an office block. But this Foster-designed workplace project defies the odds in so many ways
The Qualified Self: time to give older employees a helping hand
Digital technology is helping health-conscious millennials to track every move they make. What about adapting the Quantified Self movement to give the ageing workforce its own platform?
