Earlier this month, a colleague and I attended the Tradeline Space Strategies Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. The conference had approximately 160 participants who came to present and hear about the central theme: transitioning to alternative work layouts. From the onset, the president of...

In our previous space reduction blogs, we discussed engaging end-users by soliciting their feedback through surveys, showroom tours, force field and quadrant analyses, and group workshops. Once you have collected this feedback, it is essential to organize it to analyze and apply it to your space...

Our last blog in this series introduced two standard methods for orienting employees to an open office work environment. These methods included showroom visits and presentations/discussions with management and staff. This post will examine two more ways to help ease this transition.

At its core, a mobile work environment is a spatial arrangement that considers the mobile nature of today’s workforce. Often, people are away from their desks for meetings, travel, and telecommuting, and the mobile nature of our workforce usually leaves desks vacant in a traditional office setting.

I regularly tour courthouses in my role as a court planning consultant. One of my responsibilities is identifying suitable spaces for future courtroom needs during courthouse planning. I assure you, this is one of the most challenging tasks I have to accomplish. Why? I would like to give you an...