by Chris | Sep 15, 2022 | Beyond the Workplace, Future of Work, Workplace Renaissance, Workplace Strategy
Early September marks the start of a new academic school year for many people around the world. Is a time when parents and children put the school holidays behind him and return to the routine of going to school. Watching this ritual of going to school five days a...
by Chris | Apr 15, 2020 | Beyond the Workplace, Future of Work, Social Value, Workplace Strategy
As we tried to get a grip on living in isolation over the Easter period, I don’t believe phrases such as – “in times like this” make sense. Our world is undergoing a challenge which is unprecedented, one that is exacting a huge and painful human toll...
by Chris | Oct 25, 2018 | Beyond the Workplace, Corporate Real Estate
Having just returned from the CoreNet Global Summit in Boston and having previously attended the EMEA Conference in Madrid, I had the opportunity to reflect on what I had observed at both these gatherings. My impression was that CRE/workplace sector was now beginning...
by Chris | Nov 2, 2016 | Articles, Beyond the Workplace, Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, FM futures, Future of Work, Place Making, The Workplace Conversation, Workplace Strategy
When Alice steps through the looking glass, she finds a strange mysterious world. Lots of things look familiar, but nothing is quite as it seems. It’s an alternative universe… where things are contrary to the real world… where things are not as they should...
by Chris | Oct 20, 2016 | Articles, Beyond the Workplace, Creative Places, Design & construction, Future of Work, Place Making, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Most of us have been there, frantically typing searches into Google and getting more and more frustrated when the answer fails to appear. From time immemorial humans have been on a quest for knowledge, libraries have been filled, minutiae recorded and more recently...
by Chris | Jan 31, 2015 | Articles, Beyond the Workplace, Smart Working, The Workplace Conversation, Workplace Strategy
GUEST BLOG BY CIARA O’CONNOR Like a lot of people my age, I’m engaged in a few different kinds of work. One of them is tutoring children at home – but sometimes it’s outside in the garden. Sometimes it’s writing on windows with markers or...