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Creating the Next-Gen Collaborative Work Environment: A Cisco Case Study

Formal and informal collaboration spaces are dominating new office environments. Technology is a vital component in these new work settings. Creating spaces […]

Workplace Design: The Foundation of a Successful Customer Value Chain

Learn how workplace design contributes to a successful customer value chain, and improve your workplace design by completing a checklist addressing design, […]

The New Landscape of Work: A new Paradigm of Work and its Impact on the Workplace

The workplace has traditionally been thought of as a singular self-contained unit, a place where one comes to engage in work whether […]

The Great Open Workspace Debate: Where do You Stand?

“Open Workspace” is a phrase that often signals progress, but it can also sound alarms for facility managers tasked with pleasing all […]

Change Management: The Secrets to Success at UMUC

The University of Maryland University College began a pilot program to transform one of their least desirable workspaces -a dark, cubicle-filled basement […]

Designing for Focus Work

In today’s ever changing and uncertain world, few things are constant. One of them is the basic human need to focus or […]

Work is Evolving, the Workplace Should Too

When people talk about Space As a Service, you immediately think about WeWork, Knotel, and other community shared space providers. While these […]

Space Utilization in Real Time: How Sensors and the Internet of Things are Providing Essential Data to Support New Ways of Working

For decades, facility managers and planners have relied on guesswork to know how workspace is actually utilized. The problem has become acute […]

Transcending Generations: How mobile is key to success in a multi-generational workforce

Finding, evaluating and implementing the right technology can be a challenge. Depending on the size of your workforce, the types of spaces […]

The Workplace Management Framework

The WMF is designed to be applied to all types of workplaces and embraces high tech workplaces, (including Power Stations, Data Centers […]