Fallingwater

Fallingwater

Few residential buildings have had more impact on the modern office than Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. It was built in the late 1930s in Western Pennsylvania. As a college architecture student in Pennsylvania, Wright’s presence was still unescapable half a...
Good Friction Bad Friction

Good Friction Bad Friction

Friction is a weird thing. We need friction in our lives to maintain our health, our muscles, and our sanity. People who live in tropical areas where the weather is “perfect” too much, get depressed when the weather gets bad. Exercise is necessary friction...
Making the Most of your RTO commute

Making the Most of your RTO commute

Except for a few CEOs, no one is looking forward to a forced return to office (RTO). Data suggests that expected benefits and actual impact are likely to be very different. Whether you are drinking the Kool-Aid or just going along until you find something better, you...
Relationship Equity

Relationship Equity

The future of workplaces is going to change the relationship that people have with a particular location. The modern office is an outgrowth of the modern factory. That no longer works, the new model will be closer to that of a hotel and its guests. Relationship equity...
Performance Monitoring

Performance Monitoring

Recently several Wells Fargo employees were fired for simulating keystrokes to indicate they were using their computers when they weren’t. The dreaded mouse jiggler strikes again! The fact that someone invented this and you can buy them on Amazon, and it has...

Future of Office Lessons from Disney

While enjoying 5 consecutive days at Disney where the mercury approached 100 degrees, I got to thinking about how they keep people happy. Of the 150,000 people that were at the four parks on any given day, most seemed pretty happy. That doesn’t usually happen in...