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How Physical Spaces Shape Human Relationships and Emotional Well-Being

Allwork

For those of us who are returning to the workplace on a regular basis, being surrounded by an environment that strengthens our connections with other people will undeniably impact our emotional well-being. It is about how people engage with the built environment and, by extension, with each other. It’s all about balance.

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Flexibility In Design: Turning A Workplace Into An Outdoor Oasis

Allwork

In the workplace, the pandemic changed everything: workers traded in cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. One way to do this is by utilizing the power of nature, which can have a profound impact on creating a happy, healthy and productive work environment. adults are at an all-time high.

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What Can Young Lawyers Teach Us About The Future Of Workspaces?

Allwork

Younger lawyers prioritize a legal workplace that supports flexibility, equality, and collaboration, favoring environments with open spaces and modern aesthetics over traditional “men’s club” interiors; these preferences are reshaping law firm office design. Gensler: How does the office support your work style?

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Interruption vs. Distraction: What’s the Difference?

Eat Your Career

The full video (“Managing Interruptions & Dealing with Distractions”) is available in the Career Success Library. It’s like someone coming into your workspace and knocking on your cubicle wall and saying, “Got a minute?” Right now, here in this Zoom environment, I see the chat moving with one eye.

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A New Approach To Work: The Benefits Of Implementing Activity-Based Working In Your Office

Allwork

The different spaces we see today in many offices in the hybrid era — open areas with hot desks, breakout rooms, huddle rooms, private offices, café spaces, libraries, outdoor spaces, learning spaces, etc. have been commonplace in ABW offices for over thirty years.

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Peace and quiet at work? Here are ten of the best and most far out solutions

Workplace Insight

The Cubicle The post war business environment and the advent of mechanised office work in the 1950s and 60s proved to be the perfect breeding ground for open plan offices to flourish. At the heart of this new building was a main street with cafes, quiet spaces, private rooms, informal meeting areas and libraries.

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How the 21st Century office was born in post war Europe

Workplace Insight

Although he came to be known as the father of all those cubicle farms that dominated US office life in the late 20th Century, and still do to a lesser extent, he was driven by some of the same principles as the Schelle brothers.

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