Taking your own breaks and space, setting up a home office, maintaining a balanced work routine: the tips for avoiding stress when working remotely seem quite simple. Yet putting them into practice can sometimes be difficult, with significant psychological and physical consequences. We are talking about what has been called WFH Burnout (Working From Home […]
Work Life
Slow living and second homes: the new “geography” of smart working
The last year has seen a radical transformation in work management by many companies. Smart working (in the true sense of the term!) is now the norm, developed both as a hybrid workplace and as remote work for medium to long periods, depending on the needs of the company and the worker. Both situations have […]
How to improve your morning routine for a more productive day
“Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet” “He who has begun has half done” HORACE It doesn’t take much research to realise that a good morning routine has a huge impact on productivity and mood. Just think how not hearing your alarm clock immediately or not having a relaxed breakfast can irreparably ruin your day. […]
5 tips for becoming a successful project manager
A successful project is the result of a perfect organisation of activities, time and resources. Who is the person in charge of this activity? Let’s start by clarifying the roles. The Project Manager (or PM) is the person who is in charge of managing all the phases of a project, from the selection of dedicated […]
How to stimulate discussion and transform a boring meeting into a productive one
A boring meeting is inevitably a loss of productivity. Our mind wanders to other thoughts, we interact less and end up leaving the usual familiar faces to do the talking. That’s just wrong! An unproductive meeting is a waste of time, because it doesn’t improve the workflow and creates frustration among employees. This phenomenon is […]
Improving well-being in the office through design (and more!)
Happy and healthy employees are cheaper for companies and more productive at the same time. This is not a fact, but more and more surveys seem to confirm it. Personal well-being has become increasingly important in corporate organisation and office design: but what exactly do we mean with this term? To answer this question we […]
What did 2020 teach us about remote working?
More than a year has passed since the start of the Covid-19 emergency. In this long period many companies approached remote working and smart working for the first time ever (check out the difference between these two words in the following article). These ways of working have existed for decades, but before 2020 they weren’t […]
Com-Varese: Covivio projects and the office’s future
In this new edition of Frezza Partner Insights we interviewed Paolo Valsecchi, CEO of Com-Varese. The firm has worked for Covivio, a French real estate company, supplying offices for the new proworking Wellio Milan Dante headquarters, designed by the Cristofori Santi Architetti firm. We talked about this project last year in an in-depth article published […]
Are Hybrid Workplaces the future of office work?
2020 has left a very strong mark on the business world, revealing opportunities that many companies never considered before. First and foremost, the chance to work remotely. Will we all become virtual workers? The answer is no, because the office environment is clearly too important. However, work standards will change, and this will lead to […]
Co-working in hotels: flexibility, comfort and connectivity
Time passes, spaces are reinvented and work becomes increasingly flexible. Smart working goes beyond the rigidity of office hours and an even more “agile” version of it even leaves its physical walls. For some time now, many hotels have been offering business travellers, digital nomads and remote workers a number of services to help them […]