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Work in the 21st century is an agile activity a million miles from the clock-punching drudgery of last century… So if you’re forcing your staff to work in a 20th-century office, you probably have a morale problem — not to mention recruitment issues. Did you know:  Gartner estimates  that the average worker spends 27 hours a year looking for workspace. Read more about workplace transformation. So if you haven’t done it already, it’s definitely time to get to grips with the processes and software that can bring your workplace up to date. Workplace management software  helps staff control their working environment to create the conditions that encourage collaboration, wellbeing and productivity. As a  workplace  owner or facility manager, the way you control surrounding conditions can make the environment good or bad for your business and people. That means you have to think about: Physical environment — the sort of space available for meetings, h...

Creating an efficient agile working environment just got easier — thanks to a pioneering new enhancement to one of the world’s leading workspace technologies. Rendezvous Mobile  workspace software  by NFS already provides an unrivalled meeting room and resource scheduling and booking. Now it has new floor planning technology that gives staff a unique, easy-to-use view so they can quickly find the right workspace at the right time, even while they are on the move. Using the Rendezvous Mobile floorplan module, they can effortlessly find colleagues, set up teams to spark ideas, find AV resources for a crucial client pitch or locate a peaceful area for concentrated work. Luis De Souza, CEO of NFS Technology, said: “Agile working benefits both workers and organisations, but to be efficient and effective it requires the right support in place. “With Rendezvous Mobile’s floorplan technology, it’s never been so easy for people to find and book the meeting space or ...

Recent studies of workplaces make sad reading — they show a growing number of employees say they are being made to feel lonely and isolated by the nature of the work they do. This seems strange in some ways: our ‘gig economy’ is geared up to promote connected technologies and workspace design. Technically speaking, it’s never been so easy to communicate and collaborate with our colleagues. But the staff are just not finding the link — socially. Being part of the gig economy means many people have flexible working arrangements that go way beyond traditional employment models. Many people decide to work freelance on short-term contracts or work full-time for a set employer without all the benefits of permanent employment. Technology is a huge enabler of agile and freelance working — with a smartphone and unlimited data (or coffee shop wifi) — you can work nearly anywhere. But working remotely or separate from other people sometimes makes us feel lonely and depressed. That’s...

Our offices have seen the arrival of waves of technology in recent years, including IT, video conferencing, AI and mobility. Work is no longer a place we go, but rather a thing we do in different places. That means it’s time to ask some tough questions about the function our  workplaces  really fulfil. In other words: Today’s workplace: is it really an office — or is it a meeting venue instead? Let’s just take a moment to think about that. You definitely go there to do a particular thing You visit the place to meet people It has the equipment you need to achieve your targets It’s fun being there (or should be) Well, that certainly sounds like a venue. But there’s one other element that makes the office like a venue: You book a place before you arrive. After all, you would never just turn up at a gig hoping you could get in. Wandering around looking for somewhere to sit? That’s not very rock ‘n roll. It doesn’t rock the new workplace, either. In recen...

Rendezvous workplace scheduling software will delivers: An easy booking process Efficient booking of rooms, desk & workplace An Enhanced VC booking experience A streamlined visitor experince Maximised space utilisation.

Open plan offices have been around for over a century, and on the face of it you would think that they foster communication. Far from it. A recent Harvard study found that face-to-face interaction actually decreased when the walls came down, while the number of emails and text messages increased sharply. In other words, people stop talking when they work open plan . That’s not great for collaboration.  The open plan office first came to prominence as a working style in 1906 when the architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Larkin Administration Building in New York. Open plan has always had its critics. As Alexi Marmot, professor of facility and environment management at The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at University College London says: “The known [downsides] of open plan – noise, alienation, inability to adjust light and temperature, feeling like a small cog in a large machine – need to be overcome. “This can be achieved through attention to design, who...