Synergy. Work, home, family, community, leisure, hobbies: each area of our life contributes to our personal well-being and is an important part of our personality. Why, then, do we talk about work-life balance? These are not two opposing spheres, but experiential realities that have to be integrated into everyone’s daily life. This concept is the foundation of the Berkley Haas…
We live in a world where technology overtook analogue quite some time ago. We can check our bank account from our smartphone, run our dishwasher by voice control or turn on the lights by moving in front of a sensor. However in multiple occasions a smart home has no real correspondence to the office world. Just think about the slow…
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 need to take a step…
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 really popular, except in certain…
The design world is like the fashion world: nothing is destroyed, everything is reinvented. The resimercial approach to the office world fits into this specific philosophy, rediscovering a trend that had already appeared in design magazines back in 2018 through a lockdown perspective. What does resimercial mean? The term is simply a syncretism, a fusion of the words residential and…
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 some cons. And more often…
We’re living in a historic age where emails, newspaper articles and phone calls are inundated with a disproportionate amount of newly coined terms whose true meanings, more often than not, are a mystery to us. The result? Terms that tend to take on a whole new widely recognized and slightly distorted meaning as time goes by. Much of this terminology…
