Tall Architects specialise in workplace design. With Melbourne and Sydney now emerging from lockdown, we are getting asked a lot of questions about what companies can do now to plan for a successful return to the office.
Here’s what we recommend:
Read MoreHere are some of our favourite articles from May covering security when working remotely, how COVID-19 is shaping employee behaviour and how employers can empower their staff to be productive and healthy while working remotely.
Read MoreHere are some of our favourite articles from April.
Read MoreTall Architects have compiled a selection of their favourite articles on a variety of topics throughout March related to remote work, technology, and the future workplace.
Read MoreA selection of Tall Architects favourite articles collated throughout February.
Read MoreAt Tall Architects, were always on the lookout for the latest news about workplace design, sustainability and wellness. These were our favourite articles from January.
Read MoreWe’ve collected some of our favourite articles about sustainability, workplace design, wellness and technology.
Read MoreWe’ve put together a list of some of our favourite articles covering:
Workplace Culture
Workplace Wellness
Workplace Design
Productivity
Sustainability
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Read MoreOur favourite articles from October, which cover a range of topics including workplace technology, wellness and design.
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The team at Tall Architects are always striving to stay up to date with the latest news, information and research related to workplace design. Here are of our favourite articles from August.
“The workplace is the physical manifestation of your company’s culture and core values,” says Ed Nolan of JLL’s Workplace Strategy practice. “By better understanding the deep connection between the human experience and real estate, organizations can create more innovative workplaces that drive productivity, experience and business value.”
Mark Eltringham discusses how while we the 'Google Office', often we don't understand why. Workplace design is complicated and needs to take into account people, place, space and culture. A one size fits all approach to design is over simplistic and simply won’t work.
A recent HBR study found that communication and productivity were significantly worse in open-plan offices than other workplaces. But the study was flawed, focusing only on an extreme open plan office with no walls, and no partitions. The vast majority of offices used by leading organisations that are categorised as “open plan” have collaboration spaces and dedicated areas for private conversation. Read more about it here.
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90% of employees want ‘...to acquire new skills in order to further their careers...’ however, only one-third of respondents said that their current employer offered sufficient opportunities to develop those skills. This is causing employees to jump ship in droves. In fact, 40% of employees have already left previous employers because they lacked sufficient opportunities to develop new technology skills, and a further 58% reported a need to seek new employment to further develop new technology skills.
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A new report from the Dexus Property group has looked into what employees want in a workplace. This report was based on a survey of 300 Australian executives in growing SME’s and has some remarkable findings.
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The World Green Building Council has launched a new report which highlights the tangible economic benefits of green buildings. Doing Right by Planet and People: The Business Case for Health and Wellbeing in Green Building presents case studies of 11 facilities around the world that have one or more green certification.
Read MoreBeing productive isn't as simple as just staring at a screen for hours on end. Sometimes, we need to shift our routines to maximise how productive we can be. This means changing both how and where we work.
Read MoreUp until recently, the way that we measured employee wellness has been mostly contained to evidence gathered by educators and research institutes.
Read MoreMany workplaces are realising the far-reaching benefits of creating a healthier workplace (such as reducing absenteeism, boosting engagement and lifting employee morale) but go about it the wrong way.
Employee wellness programs need to do far more than giving employees information and steps to take to better their health. This approach usually results in very little take-up among employees and does not result in any measurable behavioural change.
Read MoreA new study from LifeWorks found that while 82% of employees had participated in at least one aspect of a wellness program, 1 in 3 employees said that their employer needed to improve at getting them excited about their program.
Here are the ways that LifeWorks suggests communicating your workplace wellness strategy to get your employees excited about your new wellness program.
Read MoreWhat makes a company admirable?
That was the question that Forbes Magazine and the Korn Ferry Institute set out to answer when studied 486 companies to find out what the best companies looked like, and what qualities aspirational companies wished they could achieve.
According to the survey, there are three characteristics that unitie the world's top performing businesses.
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BSR has developed a new framework to help guide businesses through their necessary evolution to attaining and influencing sustainability. This three-part structure is broken down into three requirements that business can utilise for their own, and the worlds, benefit.
ACT - Create a business plan with a foundation of sustainability.
EMPOWER - Involve a diverse range of voices in the sustainability discussion.
INFLUENCE - Use your power and networks to change the legal and business frameworks surrounding sustainability.
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