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In the Fast-Paced World of Finance, Design Can Make the Difference Between Burnout and Breakthroughs

Is Embracing Impermanence the Key to a Longer Life? If You’re an Office Building, It Just Might Be.

A "Smart Watch" for the Office: NBBJ and the University of Washington Explore Workplace Design that Facilitates Flow

Amenities Make Today’s Workplace: How an Amenity Strategy Can Attract the Workforce You Need

Orchids, Dandelions, Tulips—A Research-Based Look at Workplace Performance

Haste Makes Waste: The Sustainable Practice of ‘Do It Once, Do It Right’ in Corporate Workplaces

The Delight Factor: A New Metric That Quantifies the Competitive Strength of Your Workplace

What Makes a Workplace Irresistible? Three Design Strategies to Attract and Elevate Talent

A Greener Future for the Tropics: How to Design Buildings that Can Take the Heat

Look Both Ways Roundtable: Why Prioritizing Efficiency Doesn’t Have to Mean Compromising Beauty

Why a Future of Soundscapes in Offices Could Make Us More Creative and Productive

Should a Workplace Have a Soundtrack?

The 40% Office: How to Optimize Your Workplace for Today’s Behaviors and Business Needs

NAIOP Magazine: How to Reinvent Aging Office Buildings for a New Era

Harvard Business Review: How LinkedIn Redesigned Its HQ for Hybrid Work

Why the Auto Industry is Key to Designing Healthier, More Comfortable Buildings

In our latest collaboration with the University of Washington, we explore three design solutions to encourage creativity at home and in the office.

How Space Impacts Creativity in the Hybrid Workplace

Postpandemic Workplace Ideas Inspired by Prepandemic Trends

Harvard Business Review: Design An Office People Want to Come Back To

The Workplace Should Be Organic: Six Ways to Create a Strong Connection to Nature in Any Workplace

Five Strategies to Support Rest in the Office

How Can Rest Build Creativity, Focus and Wellness at Work

Because disruption to the circadian system is linked to chronic disease, it’s critical to rethink lighting levels in buildings.

A Healthy Building Starts with Light

How Covid-19 exposes the dangerous trap of the work-life pendulum and grants an opportunity to reset the workplace.

Binary Thinking and Other Misconceptions About Work

Focus, Collaborate, Learn, Socialize, Rest: How Five Work Modes Can Redefine the Office

Focus in the Workplace: How to Support Individuals and Teams for Success

From automation to kinetic infrastructure, five technologies that will define the brave new office.

How the Coronavirus Could Accelerate Technology in the Workplace

How a Molecular Biologist and an Architecture Firm Teamed Up to Reimagine the Workplace

Neuroscience Is Optimizing the Office

The Four Levels of Health that Support Long-Term Success

Rethinking Well-Being at Work

The overlooked influences that will more strongly define where we work.

Think Covid Shapes the Future Office? Think Again.

Want to Reduce Your Company’s Carbon Footprint? Start with Your Headquarters

Coming Out of the Pandemic, the Future of Workplaces Remains Intriguingly Unknown. Where Can Companies Find Clarity on What to Do Next?

The Longer Experiment

Healthy Air Improves Cognitive Function and Combats Disease. But Its Implications for Carbon Reduction Are Perhaps Most Important.

To Reduce Disease and Fight Climate Change, Design Buildings that Breathe

From Swimming Pools to Pirate Ships, Amenities (Even Crazy Ones) Aren’t Just Perks, but Assets to Enhance Performance

The Four Types of Strategic Real Estate Amenities

Different Enterprises Require Different Things from Their Workplaces. It’s Time We Met More Companies’ Needs.

Why Aren’t We Building More Hybrid Offices?

Four Neuroscience-Based Strategies to Reduce Stress as People Come Back to the Office

How Do You Redefine and Create a New Rhythm of Life? Elevating Workplace Experience with Neuroscience and Design

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