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Is the workplace experience shaped more by maintenance or by design?

Workplace Insight

It is a word that has been used a lot recently as the great British public has demonstrated massive amounts of resilience in coping with Covid-19, fuel shortages, worries about food availability and a massive shift in how we work. There is also an issue around the cleaning and maintenance regimes. So what is it? Not really.

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A new generation of workplace apps is transforming people’s experience of work

Workplace Insight

I’m a little sceptical of the kind of technology and the apps and the over usage of design functions for problems that don’t exist.” From a mobile it’s possible to complete bookings for all sort of things from meeting rooms to fitness training sessions to parking to maintenance issues such as the elevator being broken.”

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Hybrid working era means a boom time for workplace apps

Workplace Insight

I’m a little sceptical of the kind of technology and the apps and the over usage of design functions for problems that don’t exist.” From a mobile it’s possible to complete bookings for all sort of things from meeting rooms to fitness training sessions to parking to maintenance issues such as the elevator being broken.”

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Landscaping is undergoing its own tech revolution

Workplace Insight

It is amazing to see how robots equipped with advanced sensors and imaging technologies are now redefining precision in landscaping design and implementation. Robotic systems are also increasingly taking on the responsibility of maintenance and care in landscaping. We are living through a revolution in automation in landscaping.

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How To Create A Happy Workplace? Business Environment Design Matters

All Work

A 2018 study analyzed this concept in rats, confirming that the anticipation of a random positive act—food, in this case—released more dopamine than the initial first-time “surprise” of the food reward. Pavlov’s dogs likely represent the best-known example of the association between specific triggers and positive rewards.

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How to know if AI will steal your job, according to an MIT professor

Work Life

The influential futurist Roy Amara noted that as a society we often overestimate how technology will change the world in the short run and undersell its effect in the long run. Instead, he was all but demanding his team use the technology because, in his estimate, the tool made them 30–­40% more productive.

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Guest management software for the hybrid office: OfficeSpace acquires Greetly

Office Space

Checks in visitors, packages, and food deliveries and instantly notifies employees. Clients and customers, job applicants, contractors, vendors, consultants, delivery drivers, maintenance staff, an Uber driver dropping off lunch… Everyone is back on-site these days, not just employees. Why use visitor management software?

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