A Glimpse into the Near Future: Ways the Office is Evolving
The concepts that might have seemed like science fiction a couple of decades ago are quickly becoming inextricable parts of the modern way of life, and the business world is ...
HOK Helps Clients Dive Into Workplace Design With New Card Deck
There’s a lot to consider when starting the design process, at least 52 different aspects if you want to count. That’s the number that HOK has identified to help clients ...
Better Design Starts With Users: Tyler Gilchrist Explains What You’ve Been Missing
Pictured Above: Penguin Random House Toronto, Designed by figure3 (Photography: Steve Tsai) “You don’t need to come to the office to access some equipment or files or something physical that ...
More Than Just A Workplace: Why Millennials Are Choosing to Work Differently
Millennials are set to make up 50% of the global workforce by 2020. As such, employers are looking to understand the generation and what they want in the workplace. For ...
The Global Workplace, with Kay Sargent
Pictured above: Ogilvy's Washington D.C. Office Designed by HOK (Photographer: Robert Benson Photography) As organizations continue to compete for talent and against global competition, the need for a more dynamic workplace ...
Making Change Management Work with Robyn Baxter
Leading organizations are recognizing the need to implement change management programs alongside step changes in workplace design. What they have found is that changing design alone doesn’t equal adoption and ...
Designing for Workplace Choice
This post is the second in a two-part mini-series on understanding Workplace Choice and Designing for it. In our previous post we examined why it pays to provide employees with workplace ...
Understanding Workplace Choice To Design Better Spaces
This post is the first in a two-part mini-series on understanding Workplace Choice and Designing for it Workplace choice has been a hot topic of late. However, like most new ...
Transforming the Experience Of Work With Lisa Fulford-Roy
The nature of workplace design and strategy has changed completely, from a focus on real estate to people. Executives are realizing that workplaces foster strong culture, and can enable employees, ...