experience

Reflecting on 2025: a year of contrasts in workplace environments

From competing expectations to rebalancing the office attendance equation, 2025 has been a year of contrasts in the workplace – and with it comes great opportunity for change

Valued-based experience: what CRE can learn from consumer expectations

Heightened consumer expectations are widely influencing corporate real estate. This interview with JLL’s explores how experience-led thinking is redefining investment, development and workplace strategy

Design Forecast 2026: experience as the real metric for real estate

Gebnsler’s Design Forecast 2026 sets out six key trends you won’t miss in the coming year as workplace experience, the power of AI and ‘HQ-plus’ environments set the creative agenda

Connected intelligence: Cisco signals a new era for AI collaboration

From AI-to-AI communication and cinematic meeting experiences to digital twins and open-platform design, Cisco’s WebexOne conference showcased the latest technology innovations

The WORKTECH Index: new survey tool to help firms improve experience

Companies recognise the challenge of boosting employee experience but often struggle to marshal the right data insights to effect change. A new survey tool aims to bridge that gap

Why moderate visual complexity lets our brains work better

New research from a Dutch research team has reopened a familiar design debate about how cluttered and visually complex a workplace interior should be. The answer: not so much

Why a lot of familiarity and a little novelty might make sense

Designing a new workplace full of novelty and innovation? Be careful what you wish for. New research suggests that people respond well to familiarity when it comes to our surroundings

How AI is reimagining the corporate real estate market

The rapid rise of AI is transforming corporate real estate, from workplace experience to portfolio optimisation, opening up new possibilities for agility and performance