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When environments and employee experiences are designed with momentum in mind, they foster connection that feels natural and meaningful, supporting innovation, trust, and team effectiveness. This series is about honoring the duality of Anti-Plans Social Butterflies. We’ll explore how workplaces can support momentum, spontaneity, and the people who thrive when connection feels genuine.

Proportionality bias in workplace strategy often leads us to overlook solutions that don’t feel “big enough” to match the scale of our frustration. Instead, we chase after the next shiny method, cycling through trend after trend without ever addressing the core issues.

Want your people to love your workplace design or policies? Include them in the process of creating them! There’s a powerful behavioral phenomenon called the IKEA Effect—the tendency for people to place higher value on things they’ve helped create.

As workplace teams increasingly move under HR leadership, many HR leaders are finding themselves responsible for workplace strategy and real estate decisions—areas that may feel unfamiliar. But here’s the good news: this shift actually makes a lot of sense for where the future of work is headed.

As reorgs and staff changes become more common, setting your project up to weather transitions helps reduce friction and keeps progress moving forward.

As workplaces shift from assigned to shared spaces, striking the right balance can be tricky. Too much uniformity, and employees feel disconnected. Too little structure, and unspoken ownership or clutter can take over.

Badge data tells us who entered the building, not how they use the space. To truly forecast workplace needs, we need employee insights to contextualize the data. That said, badge swipe data still holds valuable clues for workplace strategy! 

While Activity-Based Working (ABW) has transformed workspaces in other industries—offering dynamic environments tailored to different tasks—many financial institutions remain cautious. The result? A workplace that doesn’t fully support engagement, creativity, or well-being.

Uncovering barriers to RTO adoption drives better compliance and lays the groundwork for effective business-aligned policies.

Employees are instrumental in defining and fostering workplace culture, often citing it as a key reason they choose to stay with a company.

While a good workplace culture can sometimes develop naturally, sustainable culture is shaped by leadership.

Workplace Culture is the cornerstone of employee retention —it’s the foundation of why employees stay.

The design of the office often lags years behind the progress that technology has made, and the way it changes how we work.

You can’t create a great place to work by simply guessing how Gladys in accounts gets invoices paid, or how Ramon in marketing collaborates.

Quoting Henry Ford talking about the development of the Ford Model T: “ If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said...

Businesses are looking to make efficiencies in terms of how they trade and that includes real estate. Caring employers, keen to retain...

With 69% of U.S. companies adopting hybrid working, most offices designed pre-pandemic will not optimize occupancy and enable productivity.

Spaghetti is still popular on the office design menu it seems. I’m drawing parallels of course. The “throw spaghetti and see how much...

There are many misconceptions around creating a workplace that delivers for today’s way of working. We see far too many companies...

This is what I call a coffee and cookie article, you'll need both as it will take some time to read as we dive into important details on...

Why? Because what we’re seeing as an industry (by that I mean us specialist advisors to corporate real estate and workplace...

3 Reasons to Speak With a Workplace Consultant Before Briefing Your Broker Here’s a quick summary of three reasons why a company would...

Engaging employees in workplace projects is not as hard as it seems. Here are some of the common misconceptions: 1. Excuse: It creates...