The open plan office often comes in for a pasting, particularly from journalists. The derogatory bandwagon was up on the ramps for much-needed running repairs during the pandemic, but is now back on the road, shuttling the ill-informed and irrationally-charged between small towns on both sides of the Atlantic. While…

I could have just left it all alone. Not bothered, I could have assumed my place in the exacerbated sense of post-pandemic powerlessness and sought to minimise the damage until habituated. I could have chucked another compliant and well-organised text into the overcrowded melee, hacked a few talks on the…

Literally everything as a service. On demand, at the end of a command for the purpose, the obsequious flunkification of life. An endgame. We own nothing yet want for nothing. We decide what, when, how and where, and summon it. A paradoxical anti-capitalist capitalism. It’s nothing short of exhausting just…

The idea that if you’re not for something you’re against it has deep historical roots. It’s often intentionally used as a polarising device, offered as a choice imbued with urgency, one to which we should have an instant response because we know which side we’re on. We’re friend or foe…

As the London commercial property market reaches a level of activity not witnessed since Covid began, so too does the temperature under the collar of the political establishment about working somewhere other than all this booming commercial property. Whether it’s the PM exposing his own disinterest when faced with the…

Balance works. Falling over doesn’t. It has ever been this simple. In many quarters it’s deemed a sense, enabled by the vestibular system in our inner ear. It’s the essence of the ballerina’s art, where it’s expression can be breath-taking. We seek it in our working lives. In many roles…

Workspace. We have too much of it. We’re struggling to understand demand and supply. But in responding to a changed landscape, we can do things differently. At the Workplace Event at the NEC in April, my talk was focussed on ten things that need to change in Workplace. I’m going…

Today is Earth Day 2022. When we hear the word ‘sustainability’ we now instinctively consider the health and viability of the planet. If we’ve been successful in heeding the multiple emergencies sounded in recent years, it’s in this regard, at least. Baby steps when we need giant strides. The planet…

The last two decades in workplace thinking, design and delivery can be characterised by one word: more. In being part of the competitive edge of an organisation, in respect of attracting the right people and retaining those it values, at every assessment the existing workplace has never been quite enough…