October 27, 2024 Think your office is fun? This Swedish studio has a fully-functioning indoor roller coaster The bright red coaster is 200 feet long, 10 feet tall, and weighs four tons. BY Grace Snelling Some offices have free coffee. Others have complimentary lunches. If you want to get really crazy, a few even have an … Continue reading Think your office is fun? This Swedish studio has a fully-functioning indoor roller coaster
May 15, 2024 Mondays at the office are making a comeback Mondays are now as busy as Thursdays in office canteens in the United States and Britain. BY Reuters Mondays are now as busy as Thursdays in office canteens in the United States and Britain, the world’s largest food catering firm Compass Group said on Wednesday. … Continue reading Mondays at the office are making a comeback
March 18, 2024 Looking for the office copy room? It’s a phone booth now Once an office staple, copy rooms are now a thing of the past. BY Nate Berg For decades, the copy machine was the beating heart of the office. Tucked in often windowless rooms, the whirring, humming machines were essential tools in the … Continue reading Looking for the office copy room? It’s a phone booth now
By Liz Stinson The office has become a place of contentious experimentation. It’s never been harder to know what the office means to workers today, and what it might mean in the future. Companies’ return-to-office mandates have created rifts between employers and employees, who are often at odds when it comes to where the … Continue reading RTO in 2024: Fast Company’s 8-point guide for designing an office your workers actually want to return to
FlexiSpot Ergonomic Office C7 | Full Review Brad Anderson / Sep 12, 2023 If you spend long hours sitting at your workstation, your office chair’s quality, comfort, adjustability, and ergonomic functionality can be the difference between a productive, painless day and countless distractions and discomfort. This guide discusses an ultimate solution – the Premium … Continue reading FlexiSpot Ergonomic Office C7 | Full Review
By Lydia Dishman July 16, 2023 The pendulum on return-to-office (RTO) has swung wildly in the last three years, so it’s no wonder that employees feel bewildered and stressed out. In the RTO debate, we’ve reported on extremes from the viral video of a CEO accusing employees of secretly working multiple jobs while logged … Continue reading The office is dead. Long live the office (at least some of the time)
By Nate Berg July 05, 2023 Offices may not be going extinct, but they seem to be getting smaller. Data from the commercial real estate services firm CBRE shows the average office lease square footage on a downward slide compared to before the pandemic. For some offices, this shift away from quantity is opening … Continue reading Offices are getting smaller, but they’re also getting nicer
By Nicole Gull McElroy Daniel Zimmer’s job at legacy tech company SAP is to improve the experience of the developers and engineers working there. When the pandemic hit, Zimmer was in the middle of reimagining SAP’s Bay Area footprint, which included leases in San Francisco, San Ramon, and Palo Alto. The 50-year-old tech company … Continue reading The office-as-playground is dead. You might prefer what comes next
By Sam Becker June 30, 2023 Don’t bend, don’t break: That may be the winning strategy to defeat office bullies, according to new research. Researchers from Dartmouth College have found that there may be some surprising ways to fight back against workplace bullies, uncovering an “Achilles’ heel” that can help equalize the playing—or working—field. … Continue reading Dartmouth mathematicians have discovered a formula to help you beat the office bully
By Nate Berg June 08, 2023 Bicycle commuters in Bentonville, Arkansas, can now ride their bikes directly to their office doors, even if they’re five stories up. Ledger, a new flexible office, coworking, and events space in the city’s downtown, was designed with a bike-friendly ramp up its entire side. The 3,900-foot-long switchback allows … Continue reading Introducing the most bikeable office building in the world
