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…
Tag: Future Of Work
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)…
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…
AUTONOMY AT WORK: Working With People and Big Data to Make the Right Choices
Autonomy and choice is the future of work. In 2016 Louise Sharp, Principal At HLW and I presented at the Future Office conference in LA on this thesis. Many themes are relevant still today. To support our claim, we used HLW projects and other market trends showcasing users desire for choice, flexibility, personalization and porosity….
THE SCIENCE OF SPACE: The mechanics behind the vibe at WeWork
At WeWork our goal in Workplace Strategy and Design Research is to design with rigor and metrics the magic people felt as they walked into a WeWork location. Our Science of Space lecture and article dig into the mechanics and metrics behind this feeling and invite people to add these elements to their own work…
WHAT GREAT OFFICE DESIGN ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE: Video, Harvard Business Review August 2016
A follow up to the 7 FACTORS OF GREAT OFFICE DESIGN article by HBR, this HBR explainer video explains how the concept work and the different attributes to look for as you design an office space with purpose and intention.
THE 7 FACTORS OF GREAT OFFICE DESIGN: Harvard Business Review
This Article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review, May 20, 2016 written by Peter Bacevice, Liz Burow and Mat Triebner
BEYOND THE OPEN OFFICE: A HelloMonday podcast interview with Liz Burow and Jessi Hempel
How did we get from the large private offices seen in Mad Men to the open desk plans we have today? This episode, WeWork’s VP of workplace strategy Liz Burow gives us a look at the office of the future. Featuring reporting from LinkedIn’s news editor Andrew Murfett. HelloMonday is a Podcast produced by the…
FOOD IS A TOOL: How to design your way out of “Dining al Desko”
We all eat. Food is a universal experience that brings people together and builds and sustains healthy communities. Organizations use food experiences as both cultural and innovation tools. Food can be embedded in experiences that help people to discover themselves in a learning context and to share about themselves in a professional context. At the…
NEW ATTITUDES IN OFFICE DESIGN: AIA Panel on Office Design
In an era where everyone is asking, “What does an innovative workplace look like?” it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find exceptional examples that truly break the mold. HLW‘s design for the YouTube Space NY is one of these exceptions. Click here to read more about the presentation I gave as part of an…
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