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…

There’s a puff of romance in the air when it comes to post-pandemic work. For the privileged, naturally. A life of wandering; without roots, ties or obligations, ‘wherever I lay my macbook, that’s my home’. Always passing through, engaging with curiosity, but fleeting contact nonetheless. It’s been born of a…

Just in case, I’ll say now: these aren’t trends or predictions. There were times previous where it was almost safe to offer them. Rather, these are the key issues I can see the workplace facing this year and beyond. They’re inevitably intertwined. They reveal the contradictions and paradoxes inherent in…

We can’t help but think it’s strange. We’ve been building offices for hundreds of years and are once again trying to understand why we would go to them, on the basis that if we comprehend the drivers we can better frame our response and may get a few more of…

On the face of it, logically speaking, pressed vinyl as a medium for recorded music makes no sense when compared with digital. No sense at all. When global sales fell to a meagre 200,000 in 2007, despite a mini revival during the rave-peppered 1990s, it should have heralded the very…

A belief in the necessity and viability of the office has fired emotion for many decades. Not just since March 2020. Those heretics who detested it — and the faff and cost of getting to it — often vocal and energised — were, until lockdown, mere outliers, disorganised and small…