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Facebook’s ‘Cool Space’ Campus Points to Future of Office Growth
Bloomberg News • 20 DECEMBER 2011 • BY DAN LEVY
Workers roam with laptops, meet on sofas and scribble on walls at Facebook Inc.’s new Silicon Valley headquarters, where rusted steel beams, exposed heating ducts and plywood-covered corridors are part of the decor. The office campus in Menlo Park, California, was renovated for $250 million in a “hacker” style intended to express the culture of the world’s largest social-networking company.
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Less Space, More Green
Building Operating Management • DECEMBER 2011 • BY CASEY LAUGHMAN
Flexibility In Office Design Offers FMs Green Benefits, Cost Savings
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The New Office Space
Oculus • FALL 2011 • BY RICHARD STAUB
New trends in technology, work style, and corporate culture make change the constant in workplace design.
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Does Your Chair Have Your Back?
Wall Street Journal • SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 • BY SUE SHELLENBARGER
What Some Employees Will Do for the Best Seat; Mastering the Art of Adjusting the 'Think' or 'Leap'
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Top 10 Cures for the Virtual Meeting Headache
Meetings + Events • FALL 2011 • BY BRYANT RICE
Advancements in technology have not only given way to virtual meetings but to virtual headaches. A seemingly flawless meeting with colleagues in different cities, states or countries can turn into a virtual nightmare with one weak link.
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Vision Statement: High-Performance Office Space
Harvard Business Review • SEPTEMBER 2011 • BY ANDREW LAING, DAVID CRAIG, and ALEX WHITE
What are the costs of using 20th-century spaces to do 21st-century knowledge work? Lost productivity, higher capital expenses, and inaccessible managers. Here’s how the pharmaceutical company Lilly remedied those problems at its headquarters, by radically redesigning 470,000 square feet of space for 3,300 employees.
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Illiquid Becomes Liquid
The Registry • JULY/AUGUST 2011 • BY ROBERT CELASCHL
A Palo Alto startup helps companies convert excess office space in to cash, 15 minutes at a time.
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Putting a Shared Office to the Test
NEW YORK TIMES • 30 JULY 2011 • BY EILENE ZIMMERMAN
Q. You work from home and want to try co-working, in which you share office space with others but work independently. How do you get started?
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How to keep high-performing women in the workforce
FORTUNE.COM/CNNMONEY.COM • 25 JULY 2011 • BY GEORGIA COLLINS
An executive mother offers her take on what employers ought to do to retain star female employees who want to start a family.
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Keeping your mind on work when your brain's on the beach
CHICAGO TRIBUNE • JULY 2011 • BY JEN WEIGEL
The sun is shining and you're having trouble staying focused at work. Is there a way to get motivated when summer is in full swing? One expert feels you'll get more done in the summer if you bring your office to the outdoors, rather than staying inside wishing you were somewhere else.
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Bay Area People
BizJournals.com • JUNE 2011
As Managing Director, Georgia Collins will lead DEGW's practice in North America. Georgia is an expert in bringing together people with diverse skill sets and areas of expertise. She has worked extensively with Fortune 500 clients, including Cisco, eBay, Google, and Microsoft.
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Mr. Designer, Tear Down This (Cubicle) Wall
Building Operating Management • MAY 2011 • BY ANDREW LAING
Doing more with less is a common theme for organizations in the aftermath of the global recession. Some organizations are able to do more with less in creative ways that spur innovation and add value to their performance rather than just reduce cost.
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4 Tips for Improving Your Office Home
Intuit Small Business Blog • MAY 2011 • BY SUSAN JOHNSTON
For many home-based businesses, the office might be a corner of the bedroom, a stool at the kitchen counter, or a spot on the couch. Workplace strategy? Efficiency? Ha! You’re just happy not to be shelling out four bucks a gallon for gas. But according to Bryant Rice, a Director in DEGW’s San Francisco office, home-based business owners can help avoid burnout and other hazards with a few simple office strategies. DEGW has consulted on business management, architecture, planning, and interior design for hundreds of clients, including Intuit. Read on for Rice’s four tips on how to improve the way your home office works.
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Increase Your Home Office Productivity with These 4 Tips
AllBusiness.com • MAY 2011 • BY KATHY MURDOCK
Working from home, a convenient option for working mothers, can tend to get hectic. Bryant Rice, DEGW San Francisco Director who helps clients maximize productivity and job satisfaction in and out of the physical office, offers four tips for work at home moms interested in maximizing and organizing work space for better home office productivity.
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When home is your office
Fredericksburg.com • MAY 2011
High gas prices and long commutes make working from home very appealing to many, especially in an area like ours, where so many spent so much time getting from home to work and back. Here are a few tips on making telework as productive and pleasant as possible, compliments of DEGW, a “strategic business consultancy.”
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Evolution of the Corporate Workforce
Lead-Zine • APRIL 2011 • BY ADAM STOLTZ
Across the public and private sector much has been written of the incredible shrinking cubicle. And with the association so many of the most historically successful organizations have made between the value of people and the walled boundaries that define their workspace, it's no wonder these headlines have stirred fear, engendered misunderstanding, and, perhaps, even simmered anger.
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Managing People at Work Q&A with DEGW's Andrew Laing
Managing People at Work • FEBRUARY 2011
Look around your office. See all the cubicles? There's a better way to create a productive workspace, says Andrew Laing. He's managing director of DEGW North America, a design consulting firm in New York City. An expert in office design, Laing urges managers to rethink common assumptions about how to configure a work environment to maximize teamwork and improve communication.
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Room to Work
NY Post • FEBRUARY 2011 • BY GREGORY BRESIGER
Cubicles to disappear: study. Everyone thinks the world is getting smaller. That technology is bringing everyone closer.When it comes to the office cubicle, this is quite true, according to a recent study of work environments.
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What will the future workplace look like?
FORTUNE.COM/CNNMONEY.COM • JANUARY 2011 • BY ANDREW LAING
Businesses can capitalize on the evolving nature of the office by striking a balance that combines virtual and physical workspace.
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A New Era of Telecommuting, Part Two
AmyZipkin.com • DECEMBER 2010 • BY AMY ZIPKIN
With the Blizzard of December 26 and December 27, 2010 wreaking havoc with personal and transportation schedules, many who would have otherwise commuted to offices, spent the day after the holiday weekend telecommuting.
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A New Era of Telecommuting, Part One
AmyZipkin.com • DECEMBER 2010 • BY AMY ZIPKIN
In November, President Barack Obama announced a two year pay freeze for federal workers, eliminating plans for a 1.4 percent across-the-board raise in 2011 for 2.1 million federal civilian employees, including those working at the Defense Department and no raises at all in 2012.
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Expert lists top 10 ways to boost employee productivity in 2011
EmploymentLawDaily.com • DECEMBER 2010 • BY ANDREW LAING
North America Managing Director of DEGW, Andrew Laing, PhD, has created the following Top 10 list highlighting cost-effective ways companies can encourage productivity and minimize inefficiency in 2011 in order to not only increase job satisfaction overall but to save money.
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10 Tips for Maximizing Efficiency and Productivity in 2011
HR.BLR.com • DECEMBER 2010 • BY ANDREW LAING
Employers can make 2011 a better year for both the business and the people who work there by understanding—and capitalizing upon—the relationship between people and the design of physical space, says Andrew Laing, Ph.D., North America Director for DEGW.
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Minimizing all kinds of office clutter encourages efficiency.
Canada.com • DECEMBER 2010 • BY ANDREW LAING
Employers seeking to maximize their staff's productivity and efficiency ignore the workplace employees operate in at their peril. According to Andrew Laing, director for strategic consultancy DEGW North America, the relationship between people and the design of physical space needs to be understood in order to enhance performance.
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Smart Space
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 2010
Shuffling office furniture around might seem like the ultimate bureaucratic exercise, but DEGW, a consultancy that works with the General Services Administration to redesign federal workspaces, argues the benefits can be anything but cosmetic.
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