Work is changing and spaces are changing with it. Continuous technological evolution has resulted in a change in the ways we work and in our workplaces. New solutions are being offered with a view to encouraging ever-greater flexibility to allow personnel to do their jobs in any location away from the company office. Remote work allows businesses to reduce running…
Exactly 20 years ago, back in 1999, the Pet Sitters International association founded the world Take Your Dog To Work Day. Having your four-legged friend in the workplace has been a long-debated topic. In Italy, one of the Unicredit bank branches recently introduced designated spaces, the first time this has happened on a large scale. Research by Randolph T. Barker, Janet S. Knisely, Sandra B. Barker, Rachel K. Cobb, and…
There’s no denying our love affair with coffee, and it pretty much goes without saying that coffee is a big part of our everyday lives. What’s interesting, though, is seeing how such an everyday, widely consumed product can have such an effect on our work life, too, and on the spaces we live that work life in. The office of…
A clear mission, well-defined relationships and a physical environment that echoes all the above. There’s no better way to engender a positive climate of collaboration between a company’s management and its human capital. All this is far from useless sophistry, as revealed by a famous study conducted all the way back in 1974 by James, L. R. and Jones, A. P.,…
