Liz Burow has been consulting with and writing for Pangeam, a proptech start-up during the pandemic and return to workplace in 2020 and 2021. Below are links to the articles written about the value of data and how to best prepare for a fruitful return to work.
Author: Liz Burow
Liz Burow is a creative design consultant that works with organizations to help them express their values through memorable experiences and spaces. She currently leads Thinky Space, an Insights and Innovation consultancy that helps clients across workplace, education and cultural sectors.
FIVE TACTICS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR WORKSPACE MORE COLLABORATIVE
Collaboration is not a space type, it’s an interaction value. Published in Association Now, Here are my 5 tactics for making a work experience the right balance of collaborative work and everything else. 1) SIT TEAMS TOGETHER: Even in unassigned seating make sure to group teams together, allowing for impromptu collaboration throughout the day and…
BUILDING A BUSINESS CASE FOR CHANGE
Liz Burow is a Workplace Design and Research Consultant and former Director of Workplace Strategy at WeWork. In our conversation we are talking about how companies can tackle the new narrative around the workplace and be bold creating environments that will cater different dimensions of workplace purpose.
WORKPLACE AS A SERVICE
A presentation by WeWork, hosted at The University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. By combining the physical and digital infrastructures for co-working with innovative methods for designing community, WeWork has pioneered a new business sector: workplace as a service. Through WeLive, the company is extending…
SERENDIPITY IN QUARANTINE PART 4: If you think your space runs itself, think again.
The workplace is not a facility, it is a show. So why is it that we often focus on the design of the space so much more than the design of the experience? The workplace is a backdrop for events to unfold. No one shows up to Disneyland to wander around an empty lot of…
SERENDIPITY IN QUARANTINE PART 3: In the future, how might we re-build good work habits?
How will we draw ourselves out of our pandemic work-from-home habits? How might we create spontaneous moments in our daily work practice, even if it is not a trip into the office? As a researcher and planner of workplace environments, The scope of work of yesteryear was always designing the ‘office’ experience. The blind spot…
SERENDIPITY IN QUARANTINE PART 2: In the future, why will people come to work?
In the future, a workplace will need a clear purpose. It will need to entice and pull us in, and be better than the convenience of home. Post pandemic, people will continue to want a sense of autonomy to self-structure their work day experiences. Deciding to leave your house will be a mindful (not auto-pilot)…
SERENDIPITY IN QUARANTINE PART 1: Building a new culture of introductions and ideas – in 2hrs or 2weeks.
I’ve never felt comfortable during happy hours at the office. If you’re not an extrovert, it’s awkward, but I get the point. On the surface we want people to take a break, enjoy a moment together. But the undercurrent of happy hours, free coffee, a shared kitchen is all about manufacturing serendipity. Smart leaders hope…
THE SOCIAL TURN: Why I embrace Social Practice
This is a quick inflection coming off the coattails of the MIT 150 Anniversary of the School of Architecture ‘Turning Points’ symposium where I had the chance to moderate the social turn panel. I’m grateful for what I get to do today in my career and have MIT to thank for being an important turning…
Q: HOW DO YOU REPLACE A WORKPLACE? A: Recognize it’s value and find it’s replacement
Originally posted as an article on LinkedIn: I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of a well designed work experience, especially with the absence of a workplace, which for many companies is a significant catalyst and marker of organizational and cultural values. Thank you Ethan Bernstein for the shout out in your most recently published HBR…
NEW WORKPLACE STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING FLEXIBILITY: WeWork and CBRE share Covid-19 stories
Originally published at WeWork’s Ideas by We: In a recent webinar hosted by WeWork, CBRE and WeWork sat down to discuss how companies are adapting their workplace strategies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sidharth Dhawan, director of agile real estate at CBRE APAC, joined Liz Burow, vice president of enterprise solutions at WeWork, for a talk moderated…
LIVING LEARNING AND WORKING AFTER COVID-19: A Panel discussion hosted by MIT Architecture Association
America is currently in the midst of a pandemic that threatens to upend life as we know it. There is a great chance that many aspects of contemporary life will change for the foreseeable future. How will we live? How will we work? How will we learn? All of these questions remain unanswered. Thankfully, our…
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