Workplace Design

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US workforce spent just 5% of their total working time remote from the office. By the spring of 2020, that figure had risen to 60% and remained at a similar level for over a year, according to an April 2021 special report by The Economist. In Europe, 89% of companies now […]

Office occupancy has reached its highest levels since March 2020 over the past month. Driven by high vaccination rates and the return of children to school in major markets, September has recorded an 18-month high of 87% occupancy compared to pre-lockdown levels, according to data from Metrikus. We may still have turbulence ahead but this is […]

“The age of remote work is upon us,” they say. After almost 18 months of lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and workplace safety policies that have prevented the vast majority of workers from going into the office, employees and employers have learned to accept remote work. As the pandemic rolls on around the world, remote work is […]

This time last year, medical professionals in Wuhan, China, began to report cases of a “viral pneumonia of unknown cause” and the rest, as they say, is history. By March a global pandemic had been announced by the WHO and much of Europe and North America had been engulfed by the coronavirus, triggering lockdowns and […]

It is over six months since we published our March 19th article — COVID-19, the World’s Biggest Remote Working Experiment is Underway — and the workplace is still in flux. Around the world, companies have one eye on bringing employees back to the office and the other on the potential of distributed workforces in the […]

Please Join us on Thursday 2nd April 1700 CET | 1100 EDT | 0800 PDT for our 3rd FREE Webinar in the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. At this moment, COVID-19 is taking over our personal and working lives. Offices are closed and employees are working from home. Well-being is at the forefront of our minds, […]

Office construction is on the rise. Since 2010, a boom has been underway around the world — with activity set to peak in 2020 at close to 19 million square meters globally, similar to levels at the height of the last two cycles in 2001 and 2008. The current economic upswing impacts the commercial real […]

“The way people interact with their built environment is going through a period of fundamental change. The conventional use of space and the purpose and utility of buildings is being challenged. As more workers look to telecommute, relocate, and work, live, and play together, the lines between traditional classifications of building types such as “office”, […]