

Continuity Through Change: Guiding Workplace Projects During Reorgs
As reorgs and staff changes become more common, setting your project up to weather transitions helps reduce friction and keeps progress moving forward.

Lauren Pollack
2 min read


Your Workspace, Your Identity 🎨✨
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.

Lauren Pollack
1 min read


Unlocking Workplace Insights with Badge Swipe Data
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!Â

Lauren Pollack
2 min read


Is Caution Holding Financial Firms & Teams Back from Better Engagement?
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.

Lauren Pollack
1 min read


Return-to-Office Mandates: Drivers Behind Low Compliance
Uncovering barriers to RTO adoption drives better compliance and lays the groundwork for effective business-aligned policies.

Lauren Pollack
4 min read


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

Lauren Pollack
3 min read


Shaping Workplace Culture: The Leadership Impact
While a good workplace culture can sometimes develop naturally, sustainable culture is shaped by leadership.

Lauren Pollack
3 min read


The Defining Factor for Talent: Workplace Culture Drives Retention
Workplace Culture is the cornerstone of employee retention —it’s the foundation of why employees stay.

Lauren Pollack
2 min read


Traditional vs Activity Based Working Office Design
The design of the office often lags years behind the progress that technology has made, and the way it changes how we work.

David George
3 min read


Transforming Offices into Great Workplaces
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.

David George
3 min read


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

David George
3 min read


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

David George
4 min read


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

David George
4 min read


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

David George
2 min read


Bread Making and Workplace Design - What's the Connection?
There are many misconceptions around creating a workplace that delivers for today’s way of working. We see far too many companies...

David George
3 min read


The Art Of Successfully Introducing Unassigned Desking
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...

David George
10 min read


It’s time we talked about the missing evidence.
Why? Because what we’re seeing as an industry (by that I mean us specialist advisors to corporate real estate and workplace...

David George
2 min read


Lease Expiry Coming Up In 2025/6? Do This First!
3 Reasons to Speak With a Workplace Consultant Before Briefing Your Broker Here’s a quick summary of three reasons why a company would...

David George
2 min read


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

David George
2 min read


Research Paper: RTO Mandates are about "Power not Performance"
In this study by Yuye Ding and Mark (Shuai) Ma at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, the conclusion...

David George
1 min read


2024: The Challenge Facing Real Estate, FM, and Workplace Professionals
As the C-Suite attention turns from the pandemic, to sustaining revenue and profitability through an inflationary time and economic...

David George
3 min read


Navigating the Hybrid Future: Transforming Law Firm Offices for Flexibility and Collaboration
In the wake of the pandemic, law firms underwent a transformative shift in how they worked, and this is now playing out in the design of...

David George
3 min read


Successful Hybrid Working Arrangements
There are some relatively straightforward actions companies can take to help successfully embed hybrid working. Here’s just one we feel...

David George
3 min read