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Transforming Offices into Great Workplaces

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

4 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

2 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...

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

David George

3 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...

The Art Of Successfully Introducing Unassigned Desking

David George

10 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...

It’s time we talked about the missing evidence.

David George

2 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...

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

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...

Engagement in Workplace Design: Reality Vs Misconception.

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...

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

David George

1 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...

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

David George

3 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...

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

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...

Office Attendance: Choose, guide or mandate?

David George

3 min read

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

1 min read

Happy Holidays from CRUX Workplace!

Wishing everyone a fabulous holiday!

David George

3 min read

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

5 min read

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

4 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

4 min read

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.

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