2021-10-05 +
Preparing For The Future Of Work: Mark Harbick of FCA On The Top Five Trends To Watch In The Future Of Work
Trust — The contract between employers and employees has shifted. Employers will learn to trust that their employees will do the jobs they need to do. Prior to 2020, many employers did not embrace remote work and thought employees could only work efficiently if they were being...
Trust — The contract between employers and employees has shifted. Employers will learn to trust that their employees will do the jobs they need to do. Prior to 2020, many employers did not embrace remote work and thought employees could only work efficiently if they were being supervised in the office. These past 18 months have proven that assumption to be wrong. In fact, surveys have shown remote workers to be as effective or more effective at their jobs when working from home. On the other hand, employees will also learn to trust their employers to embrace non-traditional concepts of a life-work balance and understand that what works for one does not work for all.
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Read the rest of the interview here.
2021-09-14 +
Designing Offices To Address Introverts’ Re-Entry Anxieties
The emergence of the Delta variant has managed to buy employers, designers, and office building owners extra time to consider how best to eventually bring office workers back to the workplace. Those considering every aspect of the matter may have pondered how to lure employees who...
The emergence of the Delta variant has managed to buy employers, designers, and office building owners extra time to consider how best to eventually bring office workers back to the workplace. Those considering every aspect of the matter may have pondered how to lure employees who loved working at home, not because they didn’t like to commute but because they are introverts who function best in social isolation.
And that cohort, it turns out, represents the majority of the population.
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2021-09-09 +
The Benefits Of Unassigned Versus Assigned Seating In The Workplace
Unassigned seating is not a new concept; it is one that has been present in the workplace industry for years. While the thought of not having a dedicated workspace might have made employees feel a bit uneasy in the past, the pandemic re-established the trend’s promising future as it...
Unassigned seating is not a new concept; it is one that has been present in the workplace industry for years. While the thought of not having a dedicated workspace might have made employees feel a bit uneasy in the past, the pandemic re-established the trend’s promising future as it has made its way into offices across the country.
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2021-08-01 +
5 Human Factors bring Success in STEM Design
Institutions of higher learning are facing many challenges in the coming decade. A demographic shift in the college-age population, constrained governmental funding, economic uncertainty from donor bases, and perhaps most traumatic of all, the life-altering impact of a worldwide...
Institutions of higher learning are facing many challenges in the coming decade. A demographic shift in the college-age population, constrained governmental funding, economic uncertainty from donor bases, and perhaps most traumatic of all, the life-altering impact of a worldwide pandemic, all create conditions for what amounts to an existential crisis for some institutions.
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2021-07-14 +
The Benefits of Unassigned Versus Assigned Seating in the Workplace
Unassigned seating is not a new concept; it is one that has been present in the workplace industry for years. While the thought of not having a dedicated workspace might have made employees feel a bit uneasy in the past, the pandemic re-established the trend’s promising future as it...
Unassigned seating is not a new concept; it is one that has been present in the workplace industry for years. While the thought of not having a dedicated workspace might have made employees feel a bit uneasy in the past, the pandemic re-established the trend’s promising future as it has made its way into offices across the country.
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2021-07-14 +
How the Pandemic Influenced Healthcare Design
The pandemic permanently changed healthcare design in several ways. Temperature checks have become the norm along with spaced out seating and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stations. Many of these practices will remain after the pandemic’s conclusion, since the avoidance of any...
The pandemic permanently changed healthcare design in several ways. Temperature checks have become the norm along with spaced out seating and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stations. Many of these practices will remain after the pandemic’s conclusion, since the avoidance of any type of viral spread is a top priority.
Healthcare design is evolving rapidly as patient experience is becoming a major goal for hospitals. In this Q&A with Catherine Gow, principal Health Facilities Planning, and Jennifer Kenson, principal Interior Design for Francis Cauffman Architects (FCA), we cover a few of those factors that healthcare facilities are considering, including reception area square footage, how patients are seated and how they connect with workers.
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Healthcare design is evolving rapidly as patient experience is becoming a major goal for hospitals. In this Q&A with Catherine Gow, principal Health Facilities Planning, and Jennifer Kenson, principal Interior Design for Francis Cauffman Architects (FCA), we cover a few of those factors that healthcare facilities are considering, including reception area square footage, how patients are seated and how they connect with workers.
Read the rest of the interview here.
2021-06-29 +
5 Benefits of Unassigned Seating
Workers returning to the office in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to comfortably welcome them back, is a pressing question facility managers are wrestling with these days.
Because people have worked remotely for as many as 15 months, many have reached a comfort level using...
Workers returning to the office in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to comfortably welcome them back, is a pressing question facility managers are wrestling with these days.
Because people have worked remotely for as many as 15 months, many have reached a comfort level using their kitchen tables, desks, or couches as their workspace.
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Read the article here.
2021-06-16 +
The Four Pillars of Today's Workplace Design
FCA's Ann Hoffman shares the four pillars of transformation management to help better understand and prepare for the return to the office.
As we look towards a return to the office, design strategists and leaders have been absorbing every bit of information, searching for answers...
As we look towards a return to the office, design strategists and leaders have been absorbing every bit of information, searching for answers...
FCA's Ann Hoffman shares the four pillars of transformation management to help better understand and prepare for the return to the office.
As we look towards a return to the office, design strategists and leaders have been absorbing every bit of information, searching for answers regarding what is next for the workplace. While abundant surveys, research studies, and projections have saturated the industry, there is no “crystal ball” for designers. Researchers and end-users have landed on the term “hybrid” for the next office with no prescriptive definition of what that looks like. The design of the future office is dependent on each organization’s unique culture, philosophy, and group experience in the remote working period.
Read the rest of the article here.
As we look towards a return to the office, design strategists and leaders have been absorbing every bit of information, searching for answers regarding what is next for the workplace. While abundant surveys, research studies, and projections have saturated the industry, there is no “crystal ball” for designers. Researchers and end-users have landed on the term “hybrid” for the next office with no prescriptive definition of what that looks like. The design of the future office is dependent on each organization’s unique culture, philosophy, and group experience in the remote working period.
Read the rest of the article here.
2021-05-14 +
Fixer Upper: Considerations for Adaptive Reuse of Retail Spaces
The decentralization of non-acute patients away from hospitals has been happening for many years. Hospitals have been exploring creative ways to make the entire facility into an inpatient setting, with all other non-inpatient space relocated offsite. In addition, consolidation of...
The decentralization of non-acute patients away from hospitals has been happening for many years. Hospitals have been exploring creative ways to make the entire facility into an inpatient setting, with all other non-inpatient space relocated offsite. In addition, consolidation of physician practice groups into larger group settings within the community has been a major focus of health systems as they look to re-dedicate the hospital space to the sickest patients.
2021-05-10 +
A Healthy Headquarters for EisnerAmper
Spurred by rapid growth, national business and accounting consultancy EisnerAmper tapped long-time collaborator FCA, along with project managers VVA and JTMagen, interior fit-out contractors, to develop its new headquarters, which spans five floors at 733 Third Avenue in New York...
Spurred by rapid growth, national business and accounting consultancy EisnerAmper tapped long-time collaborator FCA, along with project managers VVA and JTMagen, interior fit-out contractors, to develop its new headquarters, which spans five floors at 733 Third Avenue in New York City.