Equal opportunities. A badge many organisations wear with pride. Yet about which, perhaps, they ought to feel a little uncomfortable. In case anyone thinks it through and realises it’s an impossibility. While the phrase has two parts — equality and opportunity — the focus here will primarily be on equality…

The hybrid working debate has stalled. Advocates and sceptics alike continue to search for and share information that appears to support their position, even though in most instances it’s a matter of interpretation. For most, those actually living it rather than just talking about it, hybrid working still boils down…

To say that Peter Drucker is revered as an organisational and management thinker rather underplays his legacy. Like saying Alan Turing dabbled with computers. He gave us “knowledge worker” and lots of us are just the thing, so we have an almost personal association. We see ourselves in his mirror…

This article began as a monologue about resolving long-standing sustainability issues facing the Workplace industry. But really, who needs another monologue? And so it became an exchange of views between Ana Rita Martins, of the generation inheriting the planet and myself, of the generation that arguably has done more than…

It’s been an inauspicious year for Workplace. Amid the bluster, little has been resolved. There’s been a gradual return to the office for many, but for most of those only partial. Levels of occupancy are still around half of pre-pandemic levels by most measures, which (as has been increasingly understood)…

Imagine a workplace where everything with which you interacted was entirely seamless — people, systems, processes, environments. Where you didn’t have to deal with multiple access routes to information and services, where a task requiring multiple disciplines to respond didn’t require that you act as both bridge and interpreter. …

There’s a good chance my new book isn’t for you. It’s probably not for far more people than it’s for. Which makes me wonder why I wrote it in the first place. But now it’s out at the end of this month, published by the most excellent Zer0 Books, fair…

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…