workplace strategy

GSK’s London HQ named healthiest workplace in city award scheme

The 2025 design awards of the Healthy City Design Congress have given top marks for wellbeing to healthy and sustainable office projects for GSK, Arup and Lenovo

Is misplaced faith in mandates making things worse for the RTO?

Company bosses are doubling down on the return to office but all the evidence on mandates suggests that they repel talent and wreck morale without really raising levels of performance

Talking point: can the office rise above the doom and gloom?

It’s easy to feel down about prospects in the workplace sector. But as we gear up for final quarter of 2025, emerging trends in real estate, technology and design point to a brighter future

Flight to quality: the strategic divide in global real estate

A global ‘flight to quality’ is continuing to transform real estate as organisations chase prime, sustainable, tech-enabled spaces to stay competitive

Why is full-time office work flatlining despite strict mandates?

Evidence suggests that the return to office is stalling, but leaders will miss a trick this autumn if they obsess on RTO policies and not on practices that really improve the work environment

Could your healthy workplace be an international award winner?

The annual award scheme of the Healthy City Design Congress is on the hunt to find the world’s healthiest places – including workplaces, homes, neighbourhoods and communities

Tomorrow’s Office: designing for constant change and adaptation

Adaptive, circular, healthy, hybrid and social office models advance the idea of space as a dynamic system in a new report that anticipates what’s next in workplace interiors

Good day, bad day: building an index of individual flourishing at work

Can a new metric for ‘human flourishing’ help us design the high-performance offices of the future? A keynote by architect David Dewane at WORKTECH Chicago 2025 suggests it just might