by Chris | Jul 15, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Last port of call on my smart working tour and back to where I started and indeed where Activity-Based Working (ABW) all started. It seemed quite fitting to spend the day tracing the origins of this remarkable approach to flexible working given all the great examples...
by Chris | Jul 11, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Future of Work, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
The only appealing thing about arriving in Melbourne on a wet Sunday evening was I was spending four nights in the same place! Although I had visited Australia’s Second City on a number of occasions over the years this visit gave me the opportunity to have a proper...
by Chris | Jul 6, 2016 | Articles, Design & construction, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places
My recent weekend in Christchurch proved to me that life goes on regardless of the earthquake devastation suffered by the city. It did seem very unfair to me, however, for Mother Nature to wreck such havoc on such a beautiful place. Since the life shattering events of...
by Chris | Jul 1, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, sustainability, Workplace Strategy
Arrived into Auckland airport still jet lagged and it didn’t feel like I had ‘hopped over the ditch’ Little did I know that this fleeting visit to the city of sails would turn out to be very interesting...
by Chris | Jun 29, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Sydney is a remarkable city even in the depths of the Australian winter. I was there to take part in a CoreNet symposium, hosted by Cushman Wakefield, on trends in flexible working. The brief was to update the audience about what’s going on in London. Looking back, it...
by Chris | Jun 26, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Workplace Strategy
Travel broadens the mind it is said and given my recent walkabout of Australia and New Zealand I came across some remarkable insights. Over the course of the coming weeks I plan to recount some of these experiences in a series of blogposts. “Postcards from...
