Covid-19 is likely to be the single largest disruptor of workspace and the office in a generation. Founder Adam Burtt-Jones looks at how the past eight months have been a lesson in creative reinvention for many, including the team…
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Workplace design is often left to health and safety departments or facilities managers. But evidence shows that HR should have a role to provide benefits for productivity, employee engagement and reduced sickness absence, says Adam Burtt-Jones.
It’s rare that any organisation is totally satisfied with their current culture. As featured in Workplace Insights, we look at how a workplace culture can be changed by design and listening to your employees.
As the second instalment for i-FM, Adam shares his design thoughts on how to not get too distracted by latest design fades, trends and shiny cool gadgets of latest funky pieces of furniture which can often mislead clients desires. Instead the trick (if there is one) is being able to separate the cool and trendy from the new and valuable.
We spend inordinate amounts of time at work so it makes sense that our workspaces should encourage wellbeing and productivity. Research from the British Council for Offices has revealed that our working environment can have a dramatic impact on our physical and mental wellbeing as well as our productivity. What kind of track record do financial services firms have when it comes to creating a physical working environment that encourages wellbeing and productivity and where does HR fit into all of this?
In the first of a three-part series featured in i-FM, co-founder Adam Burtt-Jones discusses how the convergence of different business disciplines will create better, more intelligent and more efficient workplaces, he focuses on why including everyone in the process will create far better outcomes.
The reason why workplaces so often fail to perform their primary function, to allow users to work productively, is that the custodians of their design are prone to making the same habitual mistakes. Adam goes on to argue that many of the mistakes in the design of today’s spaces are due to nothing more than laziness.