Workplace Insight

News, Property, Workplace design Nearly two-thirds of large European office occupiers expect to relocate some of their operations over the next three years, as organisations seek better quality workplaces while becoming increasingly reluctant to pay a premium for them. According to CBRE’s 2026 European Office Occupier Sentiment Survey, 65 percent of respondents are planning relocations.

Company news Running a small business means your time is always in demand, so every tool you invest in needs to make life easier. Human resources can quickly become one of the biggest administrative challenges as your team grows, with hiring, onboarding, leave requests, employee records, compliance, performance reviews and document management all competing for your attention.

Environment, News, Workplace design The first issue of Sustainability Works, the new publication dedicated to sustainable design for the built environment, has been launched by the team behind Works magazine in partnership with the Sustainable Design Collective (SDC).

Comment, Flexible working, Wellbeing Hybrid working has delivered welcome flexibility, but it has also changed our relationship with work. The traditional boundary created by leaving the office at the end of the day is often less defined when work is accessible from our kitchen table, spare room or mobile phone. Yet this challenge is not limited to those working remotely.

Comment, Flexible working, Wellbeing Hybrid working has delivered welcome flexibility, but it has also changed our relationship with work. The traditional boundary created by leaving the office at the end of the day is often less defined when work is accessible from our kitchen table, spare room or mobile phone. Yet this challenge is not limited to those working remotely.

News, Technology, Workplace design A learning dashboard showing 96 per cent completion feels reassuring. It is precise, comparable and easy to report. But it may be answering the least useful question: who reached the end of the material? Completion can confirm attendance or fulfil an administrative requirement. It cannot, on its own, show what people understood, what they still remember or what they can do differently at work.

Safe Spaces: Unlocking the Power of Psychological Safety, Manchester 20 August 2026 More information Arkad Furniture Festival, Stockholm 27 August 2026 More information Transdisciplinary Workplace Research Conference 2026 (TWR), Zurich 02 September 2026 More information FLOURISH - An executive summit for leading in the age of AI and constant change, Napa Valley 03 September 2026 More information CoreNet Summit - Beyond the Horizon: From Complexity to Clarity, Munich 08 September 2026 More...

Facilities management, News, Property, Workplace design Herb Kim has been running the Thinking Digital conference at the Glasshouse in Gateshead since 2008. Ask Terry McStea, who knows about most events in the North East, which ones are genuinely unmissable and Thinking Digital is one of the two he immediately names. “If for whatever reason Thinking Digital was cancelled, it would leave a huge hole.” But ask Kim about year one and his account is rather different.

AI, News, Property AI adoption across construction and commercial property has accelerated significantly over the past year, but firms are struggling to turn pilot studies into routine practice, according to new research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Company news, Facilities management, Workplace design The Workspace Design Show returns to the Business Design Centre, London on 24–25 February 2027, unveiling its new theme: “The Human Experience of Work”, a direction placing wellbeing, inclusion, sensory comfort, belonging, neurodiversity and emotional experience at the centre of workplace design.