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Sustainability, Well-being, and the Building Blocks of a Biophilic Workplace

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Incorporating biophilic design principles into workplace environments can have far-reaching benefits, both for individuals and for the planet. Providing a range of spatial, thermal, formal, and acoustical environments that prioritize health and well-being can make a workplace more attractive, making it commute-worthy.

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Living Buildings Are On The Way — The Future Office Will Breathe, Digest And Grow

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Designers are using AI to reveal what the future of the built environment could look like. Although the concept might seem new, biophilia — the human race’s innate desire to connect with the natural world — has been inspiring the design of manufactured environments for thousands of years. Of course, there have always been exceptions.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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For them, racism wasn’t a taboo construct but a real aspect of their daily lives that impacted the way they navigated their workplaces. It’s one thing to read a definition of racism in a book, and quite another to know if you currently work in an environment that is racist. This divergence is understandable. It can be overt or subtle.

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When the chairs took over the world and what it all meant

Workplace Insight

Of all the things we buy, with the exception of our clothes, furniture is the most intimate, the one item we spend most time in contact with. The past few years have seen a surge of interest in the role furniture and the rest of our working environment has in making us feel better, physically, intellectually and emotionally.

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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

Workplace Insight

Arguably, it is also behind many of the most misleading notions about work and workplace design, perhaps most importantly that a change to some single element or characteristic of a working environment will lead to a specific outcome in the behaviour of people. Symbolic images abound in the workplace,” he says.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

And what if we could radically transform the workplace to reflect the answers to these questions so that fewer staff quit? What leaders need to know is that respect is the not-so-secret and the most powerful ingredient in our workplace. Doing that would mean a major shift in the way business is being conducted.

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Stop Saying "When I Was Your Age"

On The Job

This is a frightening time for everyone in the workplace, when fears abound about what latest economic downturn will result in layoffs. Also, nothing makes you look worse than clothes that are too tight, too loose or too worn, so get them altered or get rid of them if needed. Keeping up on current events. Keeping the edge.

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