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I enjoy reading about the office of the future. Lately, many articles I’ve read describe an office made up of a variety of purpose driven activity “settings” that give workers choices of how and where to work.   This office description is the definition of an activity-based workplace or ABW.    This is not a new idea. Continue reading “A Shared Workplace for all Activities”

Welcome to 2021. Covid-19 should become more controllable with mass distribution of vaccines, effective treatments, and better population behavior. The new year will also bring a return of home office workers back to shared workplace centers either full or part time. Will they be returning to a healthy facility that supports their wellness? A lotContinue reading “Facility Planning for Shared Workplace Wellness”

A lot has been written, lately, about what’s next for shared workspaces affected by the current pandemic. The truth is, changes to shared workplaces were already occurring before the worldwide onset of Covid-19. The pandemic only accelerated the process. Office populations were already requiring broader choices in working environments prior to the pandemic. Combinations ofContinue reading “What’s Next?”

The flex office is currently a very hot topic. However, as a planning procedure, it’s not new. It just got lost for a while. It first showed up in the late 1950’s and lasted through the late 1960’s. It started out with simple moveable partitions and furniture. In 1967, Herman Miller applied the concept toContinue reading “Let’s talk about flex offices”

Planning and designing tomorrow’s shared workplace centers presents unique challenges. Shared workplace concepts are evolving. This is the result of changes in workplace wellness requirements, societal, economic, and technology. Shared workplace evolution is causing us to rethink working environments, physical configurations, space requirements, and usage of these facilities. Even the way we refer to sharedContinue reading “Evolution and the Shared Workplace Center”

I’ve been space planning and designing shared workplace centers for over 30 years. Now, I find that many of the guiding principles I’ve been using are yesterday’s news. Space is one of the two major costs in shared workplace center operations. Covid-19 is changing our space allocation rules. Among the new rules, is the requirementContinue reading “TODAY’S “NORMAL””