productivity
Will landmark legal case tilt balance toward a return to the office?
A British employment tribunal has ruled that there are ‘weaknesses with remote working ’ – but that doesn’t necessarily mean full-time office working is back on the horizon
Flight to character: a fightback begins against homogenous global offices
Tired of working in an anonymous corporate tower? A new movement is underway to give offices more character and purpose through storytelling and adaptive reuse of historic structures
Impact of obesity on workplace productivity leads to call for change
Our work and food systems are creating a generation of overweight workers with damaging implications for UK health and productivity, according to a new report
Unworking conference looks at how to elevate employee experience
Improving staff wellbeing starts with creating a brain-friendly environment, says Sean Tolram of HSBC, one of a number of expert speakers at WORKTECH’s Unworking conference in London
Lessons from the BMW factory design that said all workers are equal
Two decades after Zaha Hadid unveiled her plans for BMW’s plant in Leipzig, which elevated the car production line over the heads of office workers, we’re still studying the message that it sent
Indoor air quality: experts call for standards to be enforced
Top scientists have published a research paper that proposes mandatory standards to control key indoor pollutants in public buildings and better systems for clean air
Worker wellbeing impacted by exposure to AI, robotics and wearables
New UK research paper highlights the negative impact of certain types of automation technology on quality of life for employees and asks the question: what does ‘good’ automation look like?
Boots on the ground as head office staff told to return five days a week
The mandate by British retailer Boots for its head office staff to return to the workplace full-time marks a general shift by large organisations away from the middle-ground of hybrid working
