Remote Work for Resilience

Remote Work for Resilience

2025 is seeing a wave of Return To Office (RTO) mandates. But what problem does it solve? There are lots of buzz phrases being bantered about like “we work best when we are together”. But once you get past the hype and corporate and political...
Offices to Education

Offices to Education

It’s hard to get your mind around the concept of a billion square feet of office space, but that’s about what is sitting vacant in the United States. Landlords and banks have been trying to pressure CEOs to get people back to the office. Some are taking...
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...