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To create healthy and pleasant office work environments, the focus needs to be on designing functional and appealing workplaces. In our previous posts, we have explained how the Workplace Adequacy™ framework can support you in developing an appropriate workplace strategy. Below, we want to highlight the impact of Biophilia. Biophilia refers to our need to […]

Creating an effective work environment is about more than building a better office or changing to a new way of working. Instead, a strong workplace strategy considers how the office and ways of working can be designed to encourage productivity and wellbeing. This will change from organisation to organisation, and even between different groups within […]

Order the book here! With this book, Dr. Aram Seddigh presents a guide for creating and executing a strategy for a flexible workplace that meets the diverse needs of its employees. It focuses primarily on hybrid and activity-based ways of working, but the method can even be applied to other workplaces. The first part of […]

Workplace Principle 1: Right-sizing In order to right-size the office – to plan and dimension it correctly – a workplace strategist needs to know how many people the office should be planned for. For more information about right-sizing, read this article first. Once you’ve done that you can come back to this article, where we’ll […]

Workplace Principle 5: Insights Through Participation A change to a more flexible way of working can have significant positive effects on each and every individual within an organisation. But change can also be tough. Moreover, it will impact each employee differently on an individual level.  Insights Through Participation is one of the five principles in […]

Workplace Principle 5: Insights Through Participation Getting employees involved in a change from the very beginning provides a vital tool for workplace strategists. This is how they gain the insights they need for a successful new office or way of working.  While change is good, and the goal is ultimately to improve the way a […]

Workplace Principle 5: Insights Through Participation Employee participation in a workplace transformation is important. It can generate useful data for the workplace strategist, clarify the scope of change for employees, and help with the more tricky aspects of change on the individual and company levels. But while participation is important, it’s important to avoid unnecessary […]

Creating an effective work environment is about more than building a better office or changing to a new way of working.  Instead, a strong workplace strategy considers how the office and ways of working can be designed to encourage productivity and wellbeing. This will change from organisation to organisation, and even between different groups within […]

Workplace Principle 2: Diversify As the way we work continues to change, more and more organisations look to workplace strategies to build a new-and-improved work environment. Workplace strategy focuses not only on what the office will look like, but how the way of working will function.  One method that is growing in popularity is the […]

Workplace Principle 4: Increase Adaptability If an organisation decides to move towards a new way of working, like activity-based or hybrid, it’s important to consider the social norms in place at the office.  Social norms at a workplace can either push people towards positive behaviours, or act as barriers. Establishing good social norms falls under […]

Workplace Principle 4: Increase Adaptability Increasing adaptability at the workplace is all about making it easy for employees to make the right decisions regarding their tasks. That could look like moving to a quiet zone if they need to focus, or going to a collaboration room if their group spontaneously needs to work together.  Nudge […]

Workplace Principle 5: Insights Through Participation Moving from a traditional way of working to a more flexible one implies a major change, and is likely to meet some resistance. Seeking out participation by involving employees in the process is one way to temper some of this potential backlash.  What does resistance look like? Resistance can […]