The beginning of a new year is a natural time for looking forward—for making predictions about the next 12 months, or the next 10 years—whatever time frame is most relevant for you. Given the high uncertainties in the economy and employment, it’s doubly important for...
Why do people crave smart phones? Convenience? To stay connected to the world around them? To have something to play with when they are bored? Like it or not, smart devices have become the norm. People assume that you have one or several, that you are always connected, and...
I have the chance to regularly interact with experts in corporate real estate, facilities management, and energy management. Their businesses, both small and large, are located around the world. And from the first-hand accounts of these experts, I get a sense of what businesses...
Close your eyes and rewind back to when you were six years old and your imagination was working overtime. When you considered the future, perhaps you thought, “People will have jetpacks, cars will be able to fly, maybe even teleportation!” Brilliant ideas. How easy life...
Don't Let Mad Men Fool You Don't let sexy TV shows like "Mad Men" fool you: marketing, advertising, and public relations firms are not allknown for their opulent office spaces. Over the past six years, I’ve worked in agencies with workspaces that have run the gamut from...
We could all stand to take a moment to stop what we’re doing and consider Ralph Waldo Emerson’s advice, “Hitch your wagon to a star.” Not only was this American essayist, poet and leader of the mid-19th century Transcendentalist movement extolling the virtues of...
For the software engineers and information analysts at Quid’s San Francisco headquarters, the prevailing aesthetic is Stanley Kubrick meets Isaac Newton meets John Le Carre. Our challenge was to transform a small space in a bunker-like setting into a comfortable,...
Technology has had a big impact on how we work. As few as 5 years ago, there were still people working very closely together in shared office spaces. They depended on accessing the same information at the same time -- which was probably on a server in some closet that was in...
While we've seen growth in how many employees telecommute, this growth is likely set to continue to expand in dramatic fashion for several reasons that are all converging. Changes in technology, psychology, and the environment are going to spur more people to work at home on a...
