Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Bright Spots

People in the United States have now passed through the odd period of the year that includes the Thanksgiving holiday.  Around Turkey Day, one syrupy, over-emotional “news” story after another, chronicles what some group of people – who by any objective standard have had a truly terrible year – have to be thankful for. This year let’s do something a little different and try to objectively review what those of us who are somehow connected to workplace design and facility management have to be thankful for in 2022. In March of 2020 when people abruptly stopped working in workplaces it forced a serious look at how an organization could function when nearly all employees worked remotely. As the pandemic receded discussions of the role workplaces should play in workers’ lives became intense – and in many cases these workplace-related discussions were the first time many management teams had rigorously thought …