To reimagine the office as a destination that supports all types of work and work styles, Elise Nicpon from Room & Board Business Interiors outlines the top 7 spaces that every company needs for a future-focused, employee-oriented workplace.

When John Lennon sang, “Nowhere man, don’t worry/Take your time, don’t hurry” in 1965, it was little known just how relevant these lyrics would be to today’s workforce.

The surprise she’d planned for her colleagues turned out to be on her: The office was empty.

“It’s clear that 10 Downing Street isn’t fit for purpose and much of the muddled decision-making afflicting the U.K. Government may stem from not having a proper office to work out of.”

Effective collaboration has never been more important, or more difficult to execute.

Companies are coming to terms with a new reality of how work gets done. But one big question remains: What should the future office look like post pandemic?

What makes the three-day week so unpersuasive? For some employees, it’s fear of COVID, but as many people have pointed out, the virus is hardly dissuading most of them from doing other things.

RSP’s Alissa Franconi and Dawn Brown explain how a residential and hospitality-inspired workplace design can become a powerful way to boost morale and get employees back to the office.

TaskRabbit, the worker-for-hire app that did for odd jobs what Uber did for ride hailing, announced Monday it would be closing its physical office locations permanently, including its San Francisco headquarters — not because the company is scaling down, but because it’s going fully remote.

Despite employers’ best efforts to entice everyone back to the office with free snacks and fun events, people are dragging their feet.

The digital design studio ustwo relocated during the pandemic from Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn, where about two-thirds of its employees live.

A group of researchers at MIT found that the right level of crowdedness led to more chance encounters and more frequent communication across disciplinary boundaries.

Hybrid might be the word du jour among employers touting themselves as fostering flexible workplaces, but it’s being widely misunderstood — potentially with damaging consequences.

Calls for workers to return to the office are causing considerable anxiety amongst employees struggling with work-life balance and rising costs of living.

Some companies are banning meetings — and reaping the benefits.

In an attempt to energize their employees about the return to the workplace, more companies are bringing back a culinary staple that got put on pause during the worst of the pandemic.

It’s finally happening: COVID-19 cases have declined enough that major companies are calling workers back to the office.

Leaders and professionals know that our human compulsion to acquire and defend territory is little different from that of mockingbirds and finches defending their hedges.