As a business owner or manager, one of your jobs is to leverage all of your resources efficiently. And arguably your most important resource is your workforce. Here are four environmental techniques to help keep them focused and motivated. READ»
There are countless reasons why your indoor office should look more like the great outdoors. Research has shown that vegetation can purify the air, improve employee productivity, and create a natural sound barrier between you and your ...READ»
Office-furniture designers love to talk about their products as if they were competing in floor exercises at the Olympics. We hear about "flexible desks!" and partitions designed for "ultimate mobility!" All of which is clever ...READ»
Google is famous for forcing perfectly respectable people to work in studiedly zany offices -- themed ones, no less, whether it’s gondola lifts at Google Zurich or, as we saw recently, red telephone booths at Google London. So we ...READ»
The workplace of your average Internet company is like, a totally fun, super-awesome, big-kid dorm room. Bean bags mandatory! Unless, of course, you’re talking about Russia, in which case it’s about as quixotic as Soviet public ...READ»
Swiss Life's brand-new headquarters is one huge spiral ramp, which can be reconfigured into offices or meeting spaces as the business changes over time.READ»
The vast majority of companies today are still organized under an antiquated hierarchical structure that was borne of an earlier era. But a movement toward organizational democracy--a more transparent style of workplace ...READ»
