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Higher inflation, higher interest rates, and other challenges mean that the real estate industry needs new paths to success.

Cheap and easy to make, concrete is a favorite building material around the world, with 30 billion metric tons used each year. But the cement industry accounts for 7 percent of global carbon emissions, spurring a research race to design more sustainable building materials, be it more eco-friendly concrete or enhanced wood materials.

For the sixth consecutive year, we're highlighting the companies winning employee engagement and creating a great culture for their employees.

Teams working digitally face new challenges to productivity and effectiveness. How can organizations best support them?

The long read: For decades, anthropologists have been telling us that it’s often the informal, unplanned interactions and rituals that matter most in any work environment. So how much are we missing by giving them up?

For over thirty years, progressive office thinking has been shaped by the ideas and lexicon of Dr Francis Duffy, writes Rob Harris

Now that hybrid work is the norm in offices nationwide, the question is: How do we optimize hybrid work for our teams and the organization?

Early research on how people are — and aren’t — adapting and how leaders can help.

Exclusive research and expert insights into a year of work like no other reveal urgent lessons for leaders as hybrid work unfolds.

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

The rise of remote work during the pandemic is just one part of a generational shift that is redefining how and why we do our jobs.

Corporate headquarters aren’t vanishing; they’re being rebuilt as vehicles for collaboration, innovation, and talent attraction. Traditional office districts impose heavy costs through long commutes and fragmented daily logistics. But knowledge campuses support the full rhythm of daily life—work, meetings, learning, socializing, and movement—within a single, highly connected place. Linked to major transportation hubs, they cut down on commuting time and improve workers’ productivity and overall life satisfaction. In this article the authors explain how and why place has become a key factor in talent attraction and productivity. They outline the four key elements of the knowledge campus. And they lay out the principles that business leaders can use to think more deliberately about location—not as a real estate cost or as a marker of status but as a driver of competitive advantage.

To design the office of the future, Jodi Williams and Susan Soehnlen of Arcadis share the four ways we must imagine it. 

People are starting to expect their AI to feel human, and that expectation is moving into the workplace.

The cubicle farm has to go. Offices must be places of magic.

Following the rising cost of real estate and a desire to increase collaboration and communication among employees, the open-plan office has been trending over the past decades. Research about the impact of the open-plan office on humans is equivocal in endorsing this trend. The mixed results are further confounded following the specific job requirements, such as the need for privacy in jobs requiring a high level of concentration or, in contrast, the need for open workspace in jobs benefitting from team work and knowledge sharing. This study aims to understand the relationship between perceptions of three characteristics of the open-plan office (acoustical privacy, visual privacy, and office density), and the impact they yield on employees' judgment as well as affect-driven behaviors. The study benefits from the data from 456 employees located in 20 regional office locations within the same architectural firm. The restriction to employees of a design firm enables examinations of participants, who are already sensitive to the impacts of space by the nature of their work. The variables of interest included employee perception of the workspace (privacy, office density, and fit into workspace), employee rating of social relationships, self-reported mood (irritability) and optimal functioning (number of limited ability days), and work impacts (job satisfaction, work engagement, and job performance). The Model of behavior in an open-plan office setting based on affective events ...

Finance employees who couldn’t imagine working from home before the pandemic are now reluctant to return to the office. Their bosses can’t figure out how to bring them back.

If firms want people to return to offices they’ll have to do something special. BHP chose to create the best office in the world

Remote working is making us more efficient, but is seriously damaging innovation. AI could change that

C.E.O.s are eager for employees to return — and afraid of alienating those who have grown accustomed to working from home.

Survey results show employees are feeling anxious about post-pandemic working arrangements and the future of remote work, even if you don’t yet know what to tell them.

We look at what the future of work is likely to hold for both businesses and employees, and how society can prepare for the changes coming to the workplace.

Cubicles are largely empty in downtown San Francisco and Midtown Manhattan, but workers in America’s midsize and small cities are back to their commutes.

One of the first major studies on remote work shows a hidden penalty of flexibility: less supervision.

We can do a lot virtually — but not everything.