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Should we make the office like….. an office?

It’s a rather sad indictment of the office industry that other sectors — leisure, residential, entertainment, travel — have never picked…

6 min readJul 4, 2023

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Neil Usher

The seven enduring problems of Workplace

Immortalised in stone, frozen mid-conundrum; the unknown workplace strategist, slouched beneath the flags on the lawn of yet another…

6 min readJun 28, 2023

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Neil Usher

Universal workspace design principles — here, now?

It’s fair to say we’ve learned a lot about workspace design since an interest started to be taken in the possibilities it offered in the…

6 min readJun 21, 2023

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“We trust our people” But we don’t, do we?

Deciding whether a ruler should be loved or feared, Niccolò Machiavelli opted for the latter in his most famous tract, The Prince (1513)…

18 min readJun 14, 2023

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“We trust our people” But we don’t, do we?

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Is it a bus? Is it a plane? No, it’s your workplace

Useful analogies are in short supply in Workplace. But here’s one that may resonate. It relates to how we might think about the operation…

5 min readJun 7, 2023

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Is it a bus? Is it a plane? No, it’s your workplace

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Open letter to all graduates: think FM

I first published this in July 2012 — it’s here on World FM Day without any edits. Over a decade later, it’s still entirely relevant.

3 min readMay 11, 2023

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Open letter to all graduates: think FM

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“We’re an equal opportunities employer” But we’re not, are we?

Equal opportunities. A badge many organisations wear with pride. Yet about which, perhaps, they ought to feel a little uncomfortable. In…

16 min readMar 8, 2023

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Why go to the office?

The hybrid working debate has stalled. Advocates and sceptics alike continue to search for and share information that appears to support…

7 min readFeb 22, 2023

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“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” But we can. Can’t we?

To say that Peter Drucker is revered as an organisational and management thinker rather underplays his legacy. Like saying Alan Turing…

11 min readFeb 1, 2023

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Two generations of workplace sustainability

This article began as a monologue about resolving long-standing sustainability issues facing the Workplace industry. But really, who needs…

15 min readJan 25, 2023

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Neil Usher

Neil Usher

work & workplace protagonist | #ElementalWorkplace and #ElementalChange originator | rumoured to create human environments | known to blog

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