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This Is The Surprising Pre-Pandemic Trend That’s Returning To Office Design

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Now, employees want the last thing to be expected from a modern office: walls and cubicles. . These areas of our spaces are purposefully sectioned off and act as more of a library setting.” . Think quiet cars on the train,” said Ebbie Wisecarver, global head of design at WeWork.

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

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

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The open space concept with the library tables brings me back to law school. The fundamental thing in law school is that you’re sitting at a long table with colleagues talking through challenges, not sitting alone in a cubicle or an office. Gensler: How does the office support your work style?

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Flexibility In Design: Turning A Workplace Into An Outdoor Oasis

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In the workplace, the pandemic changed everything: workers traded in cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. Workers traded in their cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. This article was written by Brian Parker and was originally published on Work Design Magazine.

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

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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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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?” The article below summarizes the video content. Here’s my distinction.

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How Physical Spaces Shape Human Relationships and Emotional Well-Being

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A cursory google search will pull up dozens of studies proving that access to daylight makes people feel better—and yet, many workplaces are still relegating receptionists and junior staff into gloomy cubicles under harsh fluorescent lighting, while reserving the bright and airy corner spaces for partners and executives.