ABW
Articles
3 essential products for activity-based working
Transform your workspace into a dynamic, adaptable, and collaborative environment with these products that meet the diverse needs of your workforce.
Project
The Golden lesson in designing open plan, flexible work spaces
The flexible work spaces of RMBL’s new head office, designed by Golden, have transformed the mortgage manager’s conventional practices in favour of an activity based working model.
Ideas
Gijs Nooteboom shares 6 truths of progressive workplace
We still speak about the workplace revolution, but revolutions don’t normally last 20 years. Is it all over and we’re simply moving the furniture around?
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10 creative and agile spaces for activity based work
The following ten design projects represent the most inimitable offices we’ve seen of late, in which space goes above and beyond in its role as a facilitator of ABW.
Ideas
Hybrid working – why it’s the new reality
It’s unstructured, complex and fluid – how do we begin to define hybrid, so that we might ‘design’ to it? James Calder of Calder Consultants frames the challenge.
Ideas
Behaviour And Misbehaviour At Work
For agile to succeed, we need awareness of how people actually work. That means deeply understanding worker behaviour and organisational culture, and managing change to suit.
Articles
Best of both worlds: Master Builders QLD office
The Master Builders QLD office renovation celebrates the association’s rich history while also ushering the brand into a world of activity-based working.
Ideas
Hot desking… is it still hot?
Studies reveal that while flexible and agile working modes are designed to empower the individual, they also contribute to low productivity and absenteeism. Can a happy medium between old and new typologies be achieved?
Ideas
Learning to share: Introducing the new generation of co-working
Co-working seems to be the golden arrow for enterprises looking to improve productivity and collaboration. What makes it an effective and successful working model?
Products
Kokuyo KL Showcases Furniture For Activity-Based Working
At the very first media event in the Kokuyo KL showroom, the Japanese office furniture brand showcased a range of products to support ABW.
Articles
Furniture designed for flexibility and adaptiveness – that’s Flokk!
With space management an ever-relevant consideration to take into mind when designing for workspaces, it’s sometimes easy to forget the practical matters should take priority – designing an office that enables productive, meaningful work.
Ideas
Top 5 tips for thinking like an agile designer
The desire to be an agile designer is strong in today’s busy design community, but what does this mean exactly?
Ideas
A specifier’s guide to the gig economy
With the age of the digital nomad and gig economy now in full swing, we explore how these cultural phenomena are driving specification.
Products
Meet Collesso, Kokuyo’s Latest Seating System Designed To Support ABW
Kokuyo’s latest modular seating system Collesso offers a wide variety of ‘buffer’ and ‘margin’ to suit a variety of work modes in today’s workspace.
Articles
How Zgonic is changing the future of work
Zgonic’s monitor arms may be the answer to a rising demand in mobile workspaces today! Let’s explore why.
Articles
How to design when activity based working is the new normal
Much more than hot desking, Activity Based Working (ABW) has become an important aspect of contemporary workplace culture – with many businesses using it as a way to commit to employee welfare and productivity, especially in computer-intensive workplaces.
Project
Futurespace Breaks Traditional Barriers At Savills’ New Sydney Workspace
Designed by Futurespace, the design strategy for Savills new Sydney digs was influenced by ABW methods, allowing for the breakdown of both physical and communication barriers to enable a more coherent, collaborative, team-accessible workplace.
Furniture
Workspace Productivity Tools from Integ
Modtec design and manufacture the Integ range of workspace productivity tools
Articles
Steelcase – Designing Active Learning Spaces
Steelcase create products and research for active learning in education and the workplace