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“Companies need to think through what, exactly, they want to accomplish by bringing people back and why,” workplace expert Elise Freedman says.

Assessing which roles are best suited to remote, onsite, or hybrid working models will help establish a long-term ambition for the future of work.

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.

Three years into a mass workplace experiment, we are beginning to understand more about how work from home is reshaping workers’ lives and the economy.

The power dynamic in the workplace is shifting as young workers prioritize individuality and meaningful work over climbing the corporate ladder.

An office building made with cross-laminated timber in Tokyo, Japan. (Shutterstock) Meike Siegner, Ryerson University and Cory Searcy, Ryerson University In 2020, the extraction, transport and manufacturing of materials for the building sector accounted for 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If buildings are to make meaningful contributions to keeping global temperature rise to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, limiting emissions from building materials is crucial. To achieve this objective, engineered versions of age-old building technologies, like wood, straw or bamboo, are critical. These bio-based building materials generally demand less energy in manufacturing and have the ability to

In this McKinsey study, we look at how the pandemic has affected the real estate market in the world’s biggest cities and what we can expect to see next.

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

We must update not just our workplaces but the mindset that leads them.

New survey data sheds light on three key reasons.

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

How can you measure your building's carbon emissions and who owns the carbon? We offer a simple guide on the three scopes of emissions and ways to divide the ownership, underscoring the need for good data.

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

The CEO of Neighbor insists that “as a result of one major unfortunate disaster, we have rashly set aside centuries of collective learnings about collaboration and teamwork.”

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

Trending November 2021 Tim Oldman – Founder & CEO, Leesman Reading time – 7 mins Home vs office: let the battle commence It’s time to address the failings in the home vs office debate. Organisations would do better to

What does it mean to be productive? At the beginning of the pandemic, when many workers went remote, some managers were tempted to start counting things — whether hours, objects, or other things. But they’re about 100 years and two industrial revolutions too late: In the mechanical and electrical revolutions, productivity was indeed a measure... Read More

The main obstacle for workplace and people analytics has been employees’ discomfort with perceived surveillance and privacy.

Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.

By investing energy and resources into their experience, you will have an advantage when it comes to finding, attracting, and retaining the right talent. 

The workplace evolves to be an input to the work itself

Working in close range led to knowledge-sharing and faster innovation, a study finds.

High-income workers at highly profitable companies will benefit greatly. Downtown landlords won’t.

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.

Employers in the US are grappling with whether and how to bring employees back to the office or other place of work. Using survey-based evidence, this column finds that four in ten Americans who