Fujitsu Ltd. said Monday it will halve its office space in Japan by March 2023 as it pushes for more of its 80,000 employees to work remotely amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The Japanese tech company joins other major businesses such as Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp.
Contradictions: Inclusive Design for All Generations Wednesday, June 17 10:00am–11:00am CDT [NC017 CEU] In light of the current health crisis we will examine the inherent challenges designers face when dealing with five generations in the workforce to provide choices of where, how, when and with whom they work to enhance
Hello, Welcome to the first issue of our newsletter- Humans @Work. In this series we will share some of our own thoughts as well as those of other companies and individuals who inspire us. We hope you find it useful, and we would love to hear
Leaping Across the Chasm Over the past several weeks millions of Americans have been forced to use technologies in ways that they never knew they could. Zoom (and 'zoom calls') has become a household name in short order. Slack, the simple messaging platform, has also quickly leaped the chasm
In a previous book- The Fifth Age of Work- I began with a simple but perhaps odd question: What would HR in a company look like if a designer were put in charge? I tried to answer that question as best as I could, but I think
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Anyone can start a coworking space. If planned effectively, it's possible to secure financial backing from lending institutions or local angel investors. As the world's first coworking consultancy (serving coworking startups since 2014 and players in the industry since 2008), we've received inquiries from a wide
In a much overlooked 2007 article, "Dignity at Work" (in the journal Organization), sociologist Andrew Sayer outlines the connections between employee autonomy, trust in employees, respect for their work, and being taken seriously as the foundations for what he calls 'dignity at work.' Sayer was approaching the subject