When a potential new client or employee walks into your office, what do they see? Here’s a clue, they don’t see what you see! You and your staff are used to looking at the same walls and desks every day – You’ve stopped seeing the old office chair that sits in a corner with no
There are many obvious signs that your office needs an upgrade, but it can take a lot more than just a lick of paint to change the working environment you and your employees require. An office makeover can do much more than just modernise the room, it can affect the way everybody works, which is
The reception area of your office or commercial premises is the very first impression your clients and customers get when they visit your building, so as always it’s important to leave a good first impression. There are some crucial elements that your reception area needs to provide, some are more obvious than others.
Taking consideration of the huge focus on global warming is essential for the modern workplace and creating an environmentally friendly office will see your workplace doing their bit and making their mark in the battle to decrease the damage we are imprinting on the planet.
As technology continues to develop at a rapid pace, it is having a huge impact on the design of the modern office. Creating working spaces that suit the modern work ethic and atmosphere is important to encourage productivity and inspiration to your team. In this post we look at 3 key ways in which technology
It’s no secret that levels of productivity in the UK have dipped in recent years and there are many factors that contribute to this. Employees have been working longer and feeling less appreciated by their superiors, both elements that have negatively affected the productivity levels and willingness to go the extra mile for the employer.
In the previous article we looked at how to establish the parameters for an office refurb/fit-out project and how to get the right people involved to ensure the project is a success. In this article we turn our attention to the refit itself and focus on the structural changes available that can be made within
So, you feel that your business needs are not being met by your current workspace – this maybe due to increasing staff numbers, changes in working practices, increased demand for machinery, more stock holding space, physical degradation or a combination of elements, for example – what should you consider in order to get the desired
Whilst the ‘traditional’ view of Japanese workspaces is one of ‘robot-like efficiency’, a move is now underway to provide workspaces to promote creativity, well-being and productivity. Are there any lessons to be learned for UK businesses looking to relocate or undertake and office fit out or refurbishment?
When Facebook selected to move their HQ to a pre-existing set of buildings in Menlo Park, their brief to interior designers Gensler was that the fit-out should be “open, mobile, socially connected, dimensionally aware, culturally relevant and personally sustaining”. How did this philosophy-led approach to interior design be realised and ware there any lessons that