With Deborah Simmons, Camino Insight Ltd

Location Independent is an in-depth qualitative study into the growing movement of Digital Nomads, and how the demand for greater working flexibility is forcing the workplace to redefine itself. It follows a community of Nomads living and working in a dif...

With Robin Bott, AON and
Nicola Gillen, AECOM

Workplace transformation can be a powerful vehicle to initiate culture change, inspire innovation and improve productivity. What businesses really want to know is – is it worth it, and does it have a lasting impact on the bottom line. AECOM took the...

With Ruth Hynes, Atkins and
Michael Proulx, University of Bath

Work plays an influential role on our lives, and the quality of working environments can have considerable impact on our health and wellbeing. Atkins’ recently collaborated with the Departments of Psychology at University of Bath an...

With Julia Ayuso, CBRE

In response to the challenges of how to measure the improvement of productivity and well-being through biophilic architecture design, we developed a tool that measures the predicted features that improve productivity and well-being, based on a scientific method, which has ...

With Rob Briner, Professor of Organizational Psychology, Queen Mary, University of London & Scientific Director, Center for Evidence-Based Management

Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and also Scientific Director of the Center for Evidence-B...

With Rob Harris, Ramidus Consulting and
Katrina Kostic Samen, KKS Strategy

Rob Harris crop“I spent some time with Frank Duffy recently, releasing a stream of memories of working with him, first as an employee at DEGW during the 1980s, and then as a client while directing developer Stanhope’s re...

With Nigel Oseland, Workplace Unlimited

An introduction to our day of applied research and the Workplace Trends Conference series as a whole.

With Michael Roskams, KTP Associate/PhD Student, Sheffield Hallam University & Mitie Energy

Michael will discuss his PhD research, the aim of which is to explore the relationship between the physical workplace environment, employee wellbeing, and productivity. The PhD is being completed in partn...

With Suvi Nenonen and
Ursula Hyrkkänen, Tampere University of Technology

Work crafting is defined as self-initiated change behaviour that employees use with the aim to align their jobs with their preferences, motives and passions. It is proactive work behaviour aiming to improve person’s job fi...

With Iva Kleinová and
Matúš Konečný, HB Reavis

Measuring productivity of knowledge workers, who may not have measurable work outputs, is difficult. Perceived productivity seems to be a viable proxy for understanding environmental effects on productivity. We developed and tested an experience-sa...

With Ian Baker, EMCOR

Within the workplace, how much is too much CO2? Do you know whether the energy used to lower indoor CO2 (creating more of it to pump into the atmosphere!) is beneficial? Or, are you like most organisations, not even measuring it?

And, what about the effects of temperature ...