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Move Beyond Cubicles To Craft Future-Ready Workplaces

All Work

The post Move Beyond Cubicles To Craft Future-Ready Workplaces appeared first on Allwork.Space. Bottom line, without people, offices would simply be glorified storage facilities for outdated furniture, filing cabinets, and equipment. Let’s make them places where people want to be.

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3 S’s of cubicle etiquette: How to thrive in close quarters

Insperity

In an era when the corner office has gone the way of the dodo bird, cubicle etiquette has become a hot topic. Whether your business uses partitioned cubicles or wide-open workspaces and shared desks, chances are your employees have only a small area they can call their own. That’s where a cubicle etiquette policy becomes essential.

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8 office etiquette expectations that are now history

Insperity

Spontaneous meetings at cubicles are normal Remember how team members used to surprise their colleagues with a cubicle visit to discuss a project or ask a question? It was no big deal to just swing by someone’s cubicle and chat for a bit, right? Gently remind employees about loud music and pungent food smells, for example.

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Office design goes to the movies

Workplace Insight

People inhabit box like apartments and box like office cubicles which separate them from each other and, by implication, life. The film was produced in 1967, shortly before the cubicle was popularised in real offices. Hulot stumbles around a modernist dream of Paris, all glass, steel and cold straight lines. In the sequence in which M.

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The future of real estate in a hybrid world

McKensey

Hybrid work has left oceans of cubicles vacant—and had ripple effects on retail and residential neighborhoods as well. What’s the fate of real estate in a hybrid future?

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10 tips for a successful hybrid employee work environment

Insperity

Don’t bring everyone into the office just to have them sit in cubicles all day with their headphones on. Whether your team members are in a cubicle eight feet away or in their home office 800 miles away, they need someone who clarifies direction, provides resources and offers recognition for doing great work.

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What we should learn from the sad story of Denise Prudhomme

Workplace Insight

Her death some time that day went unnoticed until the following Tuesday afternoon, when a colleague discovered her body slumped over her desk in a cubicle. Sixty-year-old Denise Prudhomme had clocked into work at the Arizona office of Wells Fargo at 7 am on Friday, August the 16th.

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