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The Key to Attracting and Retaining Talent Is Your Office Design
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The Key to Attracting and Retaining Talent Is Your Office Design

Now that more employees are returning to the office, we're observing changes in how the workplace is being used. Enhanced technology, a focus on...

Hybrid Is Here to Stay: 5 Considerations for Creating a Better Hybrid Experience
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Hybrid Is Here to Stay: 5 Considerations for Creating a Better Hybrid Experience

Here are five reasons why hybrid work is here to stay, including design implications for creating compelling, people-centric hybrid experiences.

How Emerging New Workplace Realities Will Drive Corporate Real Estate Strategies
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How Emerging New Workplace Realities Will Drive Corporate Real Estate Strategies

Coupled with Gensler’s workplace research, our survey of CRE executives offers valuable insights on return to office timing, the long-term impact on...

How Inclusive Design Supports Resilience and Climate Preparedness
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How Inclusive Design Supports Resilience and Climate Preparedness

We have an opportunity to design places that are inclusive for all people that can also promote resilience and make preparedness more accessible in...

10 Considerations for Transitioning Back to Work in a Post-COVID-19 World
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10 Considerations for Transitioning Back to Work in a Post-COVID-19 World

Here are 10 considerations, tools, and methodologies for creating a better workplace experience and attracting people back to the office in a...

What the Workplace Sector Can Learn From Retail’s 20+ Years of Designing Hybrid Experiences
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What the Workplace Sector Can Learn From Retail’s 20+ Years of Designing Hybrid Experiences

In an increasingly hybrid world, offices, retail stores, and other physical places need to bring people together and create community. Now, as the...

Why the New Workplace Ecosystem Is Key to the Future of Work
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Why the New Workplace Ecosystem Is Key to the Future of Work

As we think about the future of work, consider a new workplace ecosystem — a Swiss Army knife approach to choosing the whole suite of places and...

New Gensler Workplace Survey Findings: Employee Expectations for Future Office Design and Culture
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New Gensler Workplace Survey Findings: Employee Expectations for Future Office Design and Culture

In this episode of the Gensler Design Exchange podcast, Gensler workplace experts share key findings from Gensler’s latest U.S. Workplace Survey and...

3 Lessons From Today’s Students That Will Shape the Future Workplace
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3 Lessons From Today’s Students That Will Shape the Future Workplace

Coupling findings from Gensler’s Workplace Survey and Education Engagement Index research, we’ve identified three key findings that the future...

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Design Forecast focuses on design strategies that will define the future of the human experience. With strategic advice, research, and projects from...

Design Forecast 2022: Energy
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Design Forecast 2022: Energy

A focus on sustainability and energy security will demand new solutions throughout the energy sector. Explore the top design trends impacting the...

How Are Companies and Employees Planning for the Future of the Office?
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How Are Companies and Employees Planning for the Future of the Office?

Amid a constantly evolving pandemic, how are companies and employees planning for a return to the office? Gensler's workplace survey research offers...

US Workplace Survey Winter 2021
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US Workplace Survey Winter 2021

Our U.S. Workplace Survey Winter 2021 uncovers what employees are expecting as the return to office begins — and how workplaces can adapt to...

Why Inclusive Design Is a Critical Advantage in the War for Talent
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Why Inclusive Design Is a Critical Advantage in the War for Talent

For companies who are looking to compete in the war for talent by delivering a positive employee experience, inclusive design is a critical...

5 Trends CRE Leaders Can Use to Reimagine a New Workplace Reality
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5 Trends CRE Leaders Can Use to Reimagine a New Workplace Reality

Here are five trends commercial real estate leaders are evaluating to drive business performance, innovation, and employee engagement.

How Companies Are Using the Office to Transition to the New Reality
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How Companies Are Using the Office to Transition to the New Reality

By giving employees the power to tailor their own experience, we can create an office that’s ready for multiple futures.

How Younger Workers’ Preferences and Workstyles Will Define the Future Workplace
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How Younger Workers’ Preferences and Workstyles Will Define the Future Workplace

The preferences and workstyles of our younger workers will increasingly define the future of the workplace for everyone. How will this impact how we...

Here’s Why Employees at Top-Performing Companies Need the Office
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Here’s Why Employees at Top-Performing Companies Need the Office

Top-performing companies support flexibility and encourage remote work, but they also value the role of the physical workplace to bring their talent...

US Workplace Survey Summer 2021
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US Workplace Survey Summer 2021

Top-performing companies are three times more likely to increase their real estate footprint post-pandemic, according to findings from Gensler’s...

Three International Lessons for U.S. Workplace Well-being
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Three International Lessons for U.S. Workplace Well-being

As organizations across the globe grapple with questions around the return to the workplace, figuring out how to adapt an organization’s culture is...

Lessons From India: 4 Interventions to Inform the Future Workplace
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Lessons From India: 4 Interventions to Inform the Future Workplace

Gensler’s India Return to Work Survey 2021 reveals that workers in India are embracing a hybrid work model — but they face unique challenges and...

4 Emerging Patterns About Hybrid Work and the Future of the Office
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4 Emerging Patterns About Hybrid Work and the Future of the Office

As workers around the world continue to experiment with how and where they work in the face of ongoing uncertainty, Gensler's global Workplace...

Why Now Is the Time to Rethink Workplace Amenities
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Why Now Is the Time to Rethink Workplace Amenities

As global enterprises prepare their return to the office, many are asking: what amenities might deliver the greatest returns in today’s evolving work...

Will Remote Work Trends Benefit Smaller, More Affordable Cities?
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Will Remote Work Trends Benefit Smaller, More Affordable Cities?

How can cities function as an attractive extension of the office in the age of “anywhere work?”

China Workplace Survey 2021
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China Workplace Survey 2021

Chinese workers are back at the office — and the workplace is still the primary anchor of the workweek.

China’s Return Offers a Glimpse Into the Post-Pandemic Workplace
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China’s Return Offers a Glimpse Into the Post-Pandemic Workplace

China’s profound and successful transition back to the office was the first of its kind — here are some emerging findings from our China Workplace...

Lessons From China: What Hybrid Work Really Looks Like in Practice
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Lessons From China: What Hybrid Work Really Looks Like in Practice

The Chinese workplace is back open — and the experience of these workers holds lessons for the rest of the world as we consider what a hybrid...

5 Considerations for Producing a More Equitable, Resilient Power Grid
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5 Considerations for Producing a More Equitable, Resilient Power Grid

When macro power grids fail, how can the equity of energy use be managed? Here are five considerations that can help evolve our power system to be...

Sketching the New Hybrid Workplace
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Sketching the New Hybrid Workplace

In this look at the future of hybrid work, Gensler architects and workplace designers shared their visions for the post-pandemic workplace and how it...

5 Design Interventions to Mitigate Virus Risk in the Workplace
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5 Design Interventions to Mitigate Virus Risk in the Workplace

To help return to work safely and to reduce future operational risk, Gensler collaborated with Haven Diagnostics to simulate how design impacts the...

Real Estate Must Offer Human Experiences, as We Escape Virtual Lockdown Living
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Real Estate Must Offer Human Experiences, as We Escape Virtual Lockdown Living

The recovery is an opportunity to realign real estate value with human experience.

Across the Globe, Workers Want a Hybrid Work Model
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Across the Globe, Workers Want a Hybrid Work Model

Gensler's latest Global Workplace Surveys uncovered some universal truths: most office workers want a hybrid work model, and the office is still the...

Surprising Truths About the New Hybrid Workplace
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Surprising Truths About the New Hybrid Workplace

Gensler's Workplace and Research leaders host a Q&A with Michael Gao, M.D. of Haven Diagnostics, on the return to the office and the future of the...

Rebuilding Community in the Post-Pandemic World
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Rebuilding Community in the Post-Pandemic World

When we can return to the office and resume other in-person activities, creating places for people to spend time together and rebuild community — not...

5 Trends Driving the New Post-Pandemic Workplace
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5 Trends Driving the New Post-Pandemic Workplace

Here are five workplace trends that have been accelerated and now are driving priorities for the new post-pandemic office.

Design for the New Hybrid Workplace
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Design for the New Hybrid Workplace

As we plan for the new workplace, we need new design tools to meet the new design demands, and advances in technology and design tools is driving...

Graph by Gensler: Spatial Analytics for Design
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Graph by Gensler: Spatial Analytics for Design

Introducing an advanced spatial analytics service that reveals the impact of design choices, visualizes behaviors, and maps human experience to drive...

What 10 Million Square Feet of Data Tells Us About Social Distancing in the Workplace
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What 10 Million Square Feet of Data Tells Us About Social Distancing in the Workplace

Through our data and benchmarking, we’ve surfaced some key themes when it comes to social distancing in the workplace

The Future Workplace Will Embrace a Hybrid Reality
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The Future Workplace Will Embrace a Hybrid Reality

We won't be returning to our former offices. Instead, the hybrid office might look similar in many ways, but it’s going to be strategically modified...

What We Can Learn From the Energy Industry About Safety in the New Workplace
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What We Can Learn From the Energy Industry About Safety in the New Workplace

The energy industry's safety practices can be adopted by many to cultivate a culture that prioritizes safety and wellness.

10 Key Design Interventions for a Healthier, Happier, and More Productive Workplace
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10 Key Design Interventions for a Healthier, Happier, and More Productive Workplace

Healthy, happier people are more productive, more likely to collaborate, and more likely to innovate in ways that benefit the bottom line.

Slideshow: A Closer Look at Company Headquarters Around the World
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Slideshow: A Closer Look at Company Headquarters Around the World

This collection of headquarters reveals how companies are inspiring employees to be more than just productive workers. The office is now a place to...

A Day in the Life of an Agile Worker
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A Day in the Life of an Agile Worker

One Gensler employee documents her transition to a more flexible work style.

How Can You Win the Talent War?
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How Can You Win the Talent War?

The competition for talent is heating up each day and potential employees are firmly in the driver’s seat. Gensler Co-CEO Diane Hoskins calls out...

Designing the Connected Workplace
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Designing the Connected Workplace

Gensler is creating a new type of connected workplace using building software and sensors, and it’s transforming office design.

7 Fun Perks Employees Expect in Today’s Workplace
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7 Fun Perks Employees Expect in Today’s Workplace

Some office perks are worth the commute. These in-house amenities cultivate a strong company culture and keep employees engaged.

Getting Ahead of Change
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Getting Ahead of Change

ROUNDTABLE — In this age of uncertainty and rapid change, what actions are global companies taking to prepare their workplace platform for success...

Workplace Trends: A Decade of Data
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Workplace Trends: A Decade of Data

INSIGHT — Ten years ago, the arena of workplace research was a different place. Today, our knowledge of workplace metrics has revolutionized the way...

Corporate Headquarters: From the Inside Out
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Corporate Headquarters: From the Inside Out

The job of tomorrow’s headquarters is to marry brand and experience—building a culture and connecting employees to the company’s purpose.

Wellbeing in the Workplace Has Superpowers
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Wellbeing in the Workplace Has Superpowers

The wellbeing of your employees is a business strategy aimed at increasing productivity, enhancing engagement, and improving overall health and...

Want to Attract Top Talent? Focus on the Employee Experience
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Want to Attract Top Talent? Focus on the Employee Experience

The workplace of the future is more about ‘how’ we work; bringing people together to collaborate, innovate, learn, and socialize.

Fuel Cells Now
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Fuel Cells Now

An Exploration of Fuel Cells as Sustainable Energy Solutions.