After decades of optimizing for space, efficiency, and cost, the workplace industry is finally facing a reckoning: the true measure of success isn’t utilization or occupancy—it’s how people feel at work.
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Experience-Based Working: Putting People First is the Way Forward

After decades of optimizing for space, efficiency, and cost, the workplace industry is finally facing a reckoning: the true measure of success isn’t utilization or occupancy—it’s how people feel at work.

5 Non-Negotiables for the Tech-Enabled Office

Let’s skip the tired debate about whether people want to be back in the office. They’re already there, some willingly, some with a badge swipe and a sigh. So why is it that we focus so much on the “new norm” for employee behaviors and patterns, but not the new norm for our offices?

Half Your Workforce Is “Quiet Cracking” And AI Billions Can’t Fix It

We’re pouring trillions into teaching machines to think while millions of employees are quietly breaking down — a stark reminder that human intelligence needs investment too.

Designing the Flexible Workplace with People, Place, and Purpose in Mind

Adaptable furniture and modular walls continue to evolve with solutions that embrace the workplace with a purpose and drive impact into all types of work throughout a typical day.

Reframing Workplace Design Around Experience

For decades, workplace design has typically revolved around one deceptively simple metric: square feet (SQF) per person. It’s measurable, easy to benchmark and effective for an era when work happened almost exclusively in the office.

Designing for the Future: Christina Piper on How Values, Inclusivity, and Sustainability Define the Next Generation Workplace

JLL’s Christina Piper shares how Gen Z is shaping workplaces with values-driven, inclusive, and sustainable design that supports ROI.

Hybrid Success Demands New Leading Practice Solutions

How systemic integration of leading hybrid workplace practices boosts employee engagement, wellbeing, and organizational performance.

How Hospitality’s Third Places are Supporting Remote Work

Hotels are emerging as new “third places” for remote work, and curated art is at the heart of the shift—shaping mood, sparking creativity, and grounding professionals in a sense of place.

Sensory Layering and Choreographing Moments of Meaning

What if the office actually made you feel better? Not just more productive. But clearer. Calmer. Maybe even, on a good day, happier?

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Building Inclusion Into the Blueprint: A Design Guide for Today’s Workplace

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Workers Are Retiring Later: Is the Office Ready for the Silver Tsunami?

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The Four Day Workweek: Less Time, Better Work

Burnout is rising. Focus is fractured. Productivity is stalling and honestly the five day work week is starting to feel outdated. What if working less actually made your team better?

Meet Three Women Shaping Colorado’s Sustainable Future

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As office vacancies continue to be an issue in some cities, coliving is transforming empty spaces into affordable, community-driven housing — slashing costs and adding density in cities worldwide.

Booking Belonging: What Workplaces Can Learn from Airbnb’s Experience Update

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