Side Effects from the Evolution of the Workplace
In today’s competitive and rapidly changing world, businesses are seeking to align their workplace with their organizational needs to create a place that is both efficient and effective. But in doing so, many have focused on following trends set by others and are creating open plan environments that often result in spaces that detract rather than support the way their organization or people truly work. As a result, productivity and employee engagement has suffered in recent years. This side effect of the modern workplace is one that most organizations cannot afford. But new evidence is starting to emerge that there are other side effect of new workplace environments as well. Today we are designing for people and organizations that have unique attributes. At the end of the day, human resource cost is a business’s greatest expense, but also its greatest asset. People costs are 10-15 times the cost of space, …
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