Take an office, change the colour of the walls every four days and ask the people who work there how things have been. The Texas researchers who did this test made a few discoveries: neutral or blue-green environments encourage productivity. Satisfaction at work went down with red walls. Grey walls made women feel melancholy, while […]
We’ve talked about remote working many times on the Landscapes pages. The world of work is becoming more and more dynamic and companies are already adapting or starting to adapt to the digital transformation. The first trimester of 2020 has seen a spike in smart working, even in the smallest firms, to cope with the […]
What shape or form should an office take for people who don’t have an office? What might sound like a paradox is actually the question du jour for digital nomads. “Where’s my desk going to be today?” Among the cosmopolitan army of office-less professionals, this is often the first question of the day. Being digital […]
Here we go again: new year, new year’s resolutions. Starting with work-related ones. You’re certainly not alone: according to the American Psychological Association, 93% of people set themselves a goal in January. It’s a shame, then, that half of us will have given up by February. An upstanding 19% of people manage to follow through […]
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 […]
We’ve always kept a keen eye on the way the workspace has changed over the years. We’ve talked on various occasions about how the evolution and integration of technologies has progressively led to new work cultures and the shaping of spaces that deviate from convention. Today, we want to focus on the huddle room. How open-plan workspaces […]
Working from home isn’t so bad, whether you’re a freelancer or enjoying the perks of a flexible working arrangement. You get to avoid a lot of the downsides of office life, like battling traffic on your way to work, or the noise associated with an open-plan office. Along with all the pros, though, there are […]
Hovering between the extreme chaos of Hoarding: Buried Alive and Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, there’s a small bubble of hope: a tidy desk, where there’s an ideal place for everything, making for an efficient workday. While many may see it as a utopia, there’s actually a “technique” to help us achieve […]
