Employee Wellness
A Smart Building is one that Best Serves its Occupants
September 23rd, 2019Putting Human-Centric Lighting in the Hands of Designers for the First Time
September 13th, 2019
Modern Workers Need Agility to Navigate the Challenges of the Open-Plan Workplace
Startups and co-working spaces are leading the transition to dynamic workplaces according to the VergeSense 1H Workplace Experience & Office Space Employee Survey, released in August. Their results showed that employees at startups (11-50 employees) were the most likely to be working in agile or hot-desking environments, with 23% in contrast to the 8% of […]
“The Most Significant Challenges for Organizations Today Relate to People”
“The future of work — it’s an exciting frontier where, more than ever, innovation and collaboration will be keys to success. And it’s coming to an enterprise near you at breakneck speed. Not to mention a café, home office, or shared workspace,” begins a recent report by tech-giant Cisco on the “borderless, lightning-fast, and highly […]
Real Estate Developers Should Eye Vertical Diversification into Facilities Management
Real estate developers buy land and create facilities to match the needs of their prospective clients. Once construction is completed, the property is sold, leased, or rented, and the developer’s focus moves to the next project. This is the real estate development business and it has made many people very rich. “Ninety percent of all […]
“HCL has the Potential to Become a Standard Approach to Lighting in Most Buildings”
Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) is illumination designed to trigger biological responses in humans to suit their activities and the overall objectives of a space. While mimicking the daily color and brightness output of natural sunlight provides a range of benefits for the user, there is more to HCL than simply replacing sunlight. Each space, depending on […]
The Complex Relationship Between Workplace Noise & Productivity
Printers stutter through their process in a pattern that makes you wonder why your colleague needs so many copies of the same thing, or reminds you that you have a few things to print. The whirring of the coffee machine will often make you check your cup, take a sip, or think about your favorite […]
Freelance Work Culture is Laying the Foundations for the Virtual Office
There are more than 53 million freelancers workers in the US, making up 34% of the national workforce according to a Freelancers Union report. Freelancers log more than one billion work hours per week and bring an estimated $715 billion in earnings into the US economy. Twice as many freelancers have seen an increase in […]
Biophilia is Slowly Seeping into Smart Building Design
Biophilia is a growing and loosely defined topic within the smart workplace evolution. It relates to humans’ intrinsic need for nature but is often symbolized by the simple addition of indoor plants or photographs of nature on the walls, and therefore is often not given a significant amount of attention by facility management. However, the […]
“The Primacy of People & High-Quality User Experiences are Set to Dominate CRE Decision-Making”
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