Privacy + Openness: It’s About Balance
Private offices aren’t the solution to today’s challenges at work, and open-plan offices aren’t the problem. Rather, it’s about balance.
HR Advocates Help Create the Right Work Space
Human resources leaders gathered in Dubai to share stories about how the workplace can help improve employee engagement.
Dubai Design: Finding Value in Biophilia
Design, interiors and architecture experts joined a panel to answer honest questions about biophilia in the workplace.
Moving to Munich: One Employee’s Story of Change
The Steelcase Learning + Innovation Center in Munich sets a new tone and communicates a new set of cultural values to everyone who works there.
Leadership Experts: Leaders Must Change
An expert panel in the Steelcase London WorkLife Center focused on the new ways in which leaders have to work.
Inside a Fundamental Shift Happening at Work
The ways we work and, as a result, the environments in which we work are changing in ways we haven’t seen before. Steelcase Director of Research Communications and Editor of 360 Magazine Chris Congdon, is part of a team reporting on the renaissance the office is experiencing. Listen as we discuss the drivers and disrupters causing this fundamental shift in the workplace. And, learn how the state of work today is blurring the edges of the traditional office to create places people love to work.
Restoration Office
You don’t always have to go outdoors to experience nature’s benefits. By incorporating four key ways humans interact with nature, biophilic design can mimic its effects and greatly enhance our wellbeing.
Managing Silos Leading to Smart Collaboration
An expert panel at the Strategic Management Forum in London discussed how to bridge silos inherent within many large organisations.
The Impact of Workplace Design on Employee Engagement
The Global Report, a survey in 17 countries about worker wellbeing, has shown that there is a direct link between how much control employees have over how and where they work and their engagement level.
Real Work
Cool cafés are popping up in corporate environments everywhere. But any office can mimic the cool factor of a coffee shop with Wi-Fi and an espresso machine. Creating a great corporate third place that gives people what they need to do real work requires a lot more.
New Research on Employee Engagement
Can the office be used as a strategic lever to impact employee engagement? For the first time, new research shows a correlation between employee engagement and the workplace. Chris Congdon, director of global research communications for Steelcase, discusses key findings and what kinds of changes to the work environment will have the biggest impact for people.