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David George

Jun 19
4 min

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

Jun 19
2 min

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...

Bread Making and Workplace Design - What's the Connection?

David George

Apr 24
3 min

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...

The Art Of Successfully Introducing Unassigned Desking

David George

Feb 23
10 min

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...

It’s time we talked about the missing evidence.

David George

Feb 16
2 min

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...

Lease Expiry Coming Up In 2025/6? Do This First!

David George

Feb 5
2 min

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...

Engagement in Workplace Design: Reality Vs Misconception.

David George

Jan 30
2 min

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...

Research Paper: RTO Mandates are about "Power not Performance"

David George

Jan 23
1 min

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...

2024: The Challenge Facing Real Estate, FM, and Workplace Professionals

David George

Jan 23
3 min

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...

Navigating the Hybrid Future: Transforming Law Firm Offices for Flexibility and Collaboration

David George

Jan 22
3 min

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

Jan 16
3 min

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...

Office Attendance: Choose, guide or mandate?

David George

Jan 10
3 min

Office Attendance: Choose, guide or mandate?

Do you group all of your employees into one level of competency, experience, skills, productivity, outputs and pay? No, I thought not....

Lauren Pollack

Dec 14, 2023
1 min

Happy Holidays from CRUX Workplace!

Wishing everyone a fabulous holiday!

David George

Nov 21, 2023
3 min

The Workplace Renovation Gamble

There’s no need for gambling or leaps of faith with your real estate. Reduce risk with an "Engage them and they will come" approach.

2024: the year of the Great Real Estate Downsizing?

David George

Nov 18, 2023
5 min

2024: the year of the Great Real Estate Downsizing?

Let’s look at the changing needs of real estate occupiers. Office occupancy levels have, by most metrics, averaged around 50% of...

Hybrid Working: How & Why it Changes Your Office Design

David George

Nov 18, 2023
4 min

Hybrid Working: How & Why it Changes Your Office Design

What the pandemic has taught us. Allowing employees greater flexibility and choice about where and when they work, will most likely...

David George

Nov 11, 2023
2 min

Hack 2: Avoid this workplace fail!

In my last post I shared a hack to improve a workplace at low or zero cost, by reducing office space to densify the occupants, improving...

David George

Nov 11, 2023
2 min

Hack 1: Workplace Densification

The office feels dead, no sense of team and very few people want to come in. This is not a new challenge but I’ve seen it time and again...

David George

Oct 24, 2023
2 min

The Long Game

We're seeing companies settle into a natural cadence of working this October. For some the way of working has been discussed, formalized,...

Enhance Your Tech Investment with a Human-Centered Approach

Lauren Pollack

Aug 23, 2023
4 min

Enhance Your Tech Investment with a Human-Centered Approach

Simply because the technology can do the job or is popular doesn't guarantee user-friendliness or employees' willingness to adapt to it.

David George

Jul 17, 2023
2 min

Still Kicking The Can?

Does any of this sound familiar? You’re seeing about 25-35% of employees using your offices, but you can spin that to say around 80% use...

It's time to move on. Office Design for Flexible Working

David George

Jun 27, 2023
2 min

It's time to move on. Office Design for Flexible Working

It really is time to put the differences of our past behind us, and focus on the future. There will always be opinions and zeitgeists at...

Lauren Pollack

Jun 14, 2023
4 min

Strategic Uses for Sensor Data

In an age where data is more available than ever, measuring does not guarantee understanding. The path from measuring workplace usage to...

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