by Chris | Mar 17, 2022 | Future of Work, Reflections, Uncategorised, Workplace Strategy
This week, as we Irish and our friends celebrate St Patrick’s Day, I was reminded of a character in ‘Juno and the Paycock’, the famous play by Sean O’Casey. Set in the 1920’s, the feckless old timer Captain Boyle’s final line in the play “The whole world is in...
by Chris | Jun 9, 2020 | Agile Working, Corporate Real Estate, Future of Work, Smart Working, Workplace Renaissance, Workplace Strategy
are we only seeing part of the picture? Covid-19 has unleashed a great deal of interest in remote working, now known to all and sundry by the snappier three-letter acronym, WFH. What I find particularly fascinating is that the mainstream press has now latched on to...
by Chris | Oct 14, 2019 | Agile Working, Reflections, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Source: The Economist 28 Sept 2019 Surely a sign of the times is when a mainstream publication such as the venerable Economist would devote not one, but three items on the Workplace sector? In their September 28th issue they discussed the profound changes regarding...
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...