Office Trends

Change is inevitable. It’s happening right now.

​7 Office Trends in 2018

Workplaces have come a long way. With millennials and Gen Z entering the workforce, office interiors have been constantly evolving. Modern design techniques have been incorporated to improve efficiency, enhance productivity, and inspire innovation.

Smart, activity-based workplaces (ABW) for agile organizations

​An increasing number of companies are realizing that open plan offices don't support their staff effectively. This kind of office space works for tasks where employees work individually and where concentration tasks are limited, but studies show that employees work in teams or need to perform concentration tasks approximately 75% of their working hours. This often results in a shortage of smaller conference rooms, project rooms, creative spaces etc., while desk space in open plan offices remain unused more than 50% of the time. Activity-based work spaces provide the solution to this problem.

GSK at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia

GSK's President of North America Pharmaceuticals, Deirdre Connelly, and colleagues give a tour of our new offices in Philadelphia's Navy Yard corporate campus.

The office of tomorrow: How design impacts culture

Santa Cruz based Plantronics, makers of wireless headsets, is giving its aging facilities a complete design overhaul. The company's head of human resources, Pat Wadors, shows SmartPlanet how the new working spaces, in addition to being more tech-friendly, are also starting to create change within the company's culture.

GLG's New Global Headquarters Pioneers Latest Approach to Office Design and Culture

GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand and architect Clive Wilkinson introduce the new space.

"Our mission is to transform the way the world's top professionals share expertise and learn, and our new headquarters will allow us to open up GLG and infuse that spirit in everything we do," said Saint-Amand. "We host thousands of meetings in New York City every year but to date have never hosted them in our offices. Now we will."

For more information visit GLG.it

Activity Based Working at Martela House

Martela introduced activity-based working at Martela House two years ago. However, the developments did not stop there, as changes in the organisation, working practices and attitudes are constantly shaping the workplace. 

Inside Look at Google's New York Offices

Water towers in the café. A fire hydrant in the hallway. Google's New York City office has gone on a hiring binge, and has tricked out its offices so that new employees know they're working in New York. WSJ's Andy Jordan takes an exclusive look inside Google's Chelsea office in Manhattan.

Activity Based Working animation video

How has the world of work been changing? Watch our animation to find out, and discover what we can all achieve by changing with it.