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What Is Biophilia - And Why Is It Trending? - an interview with Oliver Heath

Biophilic design has become a talking point for anyone interested in the future of the workplace. But what is it and why all the interest? I asked biophilic design expert Oliver Heath, founder of s...

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How a creative collaboration launches a new product

The world of work is changing as the world begins to adapt to life post-pandemic and whether we work in an office full-time or part-time, or from home full-time, or rent a corner of a shared office...

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Agile working is in the bag

As lockdowns come and go, it's more important than ever that your workspace is flexible and organised. Since we were all told to work from home in March 2020, social media has been full of people d...

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Organise your home office in five simple steps

As lockdowns come and go, it's more important than ever that your workspace is flexible and organised. Since we were all told to work from home in March 2020, social media has been full of peopl...

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Getting organised for home schooling and working

For many people, the Pandemic and the associated Lockdowns have resulted in their first experience of working from home and for most parents, the introduction of Home Schooling.

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Home is the new office

This post is all about working from home and how so many of us are currently making our homes into offices.

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How to introduce a clean desk policy for agile working

The introduction of home-working (a form of agile working) caught many organisations on the hop, forcing them to implement an agile-working policy at breakneck speed. There wasn't time for innovation.

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The office is dead - long live the office

The unprecedented change brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic will see a revolution of the office and how we use it, not an evolution.

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Why a clean desk policy is essential post-coronavirus

Before Coronavirus turned our world upside down and changed how we work in my and many other people's eyes forever, a Clean Desk Policy (CDP) was implemented by companies to reduce the risk of info...

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A Coronavirus update from our MD Jamie Rothwell

Following the UK Prime Ministers announcement on Monday 23rd March, we are writing to confirm that we are temporarily closing our offices and London Hub with immediate effect.

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Are you as agile as you think?

Are you as agile as you think? Part 1

Agile working won't just happen unless it is implemented as part of a carefully considered strategy. The potential application for that methodology is broad which invariably means that a business c...

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How interior design can reflect business culture

What does the future hold for office life and is it time to stand up and ditch the office chair? Where once the idea of 'the office' was a fairly fixed notion - fluorescent lighting, bland, utilita...

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Why there are competing priorities in 'agile' cultures

Scrum is a project management method from the Agile school of thought. As you are in the interiors industry you have probably heard the word agile used already, but this agile is a different agile ...

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Q&A with Hotbox

Q&A with Hotbox founder, Jamie Rothwell

With the Hotbox brand going from strength-to-strength, founder and general agile working expert, Jamie Rothwell, answers questions about why he created these stellar products and the challenges he ...

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Designing a workplace for different personality types

Designing a workplace for different personality types

Hotdesking: it's something that can be useful for reducing costs, driving engagement and even being a workplace boredom buster. But something we've been thinking about recently is which working sty...

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Q&A with Hotbox

Q&A with Hotbox

For companies such as Hotbox, Clerkenwell Design Week is a place to meet fresh faces and to be inspired by new design concepts. Hotbox founder, Jamie Rothwell, sits down to discuss the CDW exper...

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Q&A with Forster Inc

Q&A with Forster Inc

Forster Inc. is a London-based interior design consultancy with an edge, priding itself on placing people at the core of its residential and commercial design. We sit down with its founder, Rachel ...

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A guide to relative estimation

How often have we seen projects come in late? It sometimes seems they are late more often than not. Bizarrely, while it is easy to be cynical about the quality of estimates things look different wh...

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