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 […]
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Why do remote workers struggle to “switch off”?
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 […]
Pets in the workplace: from the idea to design
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 […]
Work Café: taking life in the office of the future in a new direction
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 […]