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Open Office: MANAGING A BLENDED WORKFORCE
Recent years have seen a rise in popularity of the blended workforce, as employers have increasingly enjoyed the flexibility of hiring a diverse range of staff on full and part time contracts, temporary workers, contractors and freelancers, often working from multiple locations and different time zones. The enthusiasm for blended working is shared by employees… Read More >
Open Office: How does office-based working positively impact an employee’s mental health
We hear so much about the pressure in the workplace, office politics and work place mental health and wellbeing. Over the past six months the shift to remote working from home has been essential for many people. Here’s how the office can and does provide a positive impact on our mental health. This article will highlight… Read More >
Open Office: Managers Control Happiness!
New, world-leading research from Identity Realization demonstrates that whether working from home or the changing, Covid-19 office; the key to good performance – and the key to success for every business – is ‘happiness’ powered by employee autonomy. Running a survey and an experiment titled, “Covid-19: The Value of a Creative Culture,” Identity Realization enquired about the… Read More >
Open Office: The End of the Office/ The End of Innovation
The End of the Office: The End of Innovation Why physical spaces support the creative process “Can you please sterilise your hands before you come in?” The receptionist at my accountant’s had never asked me that before. “Would you like a coffee while you wait?” is the question I was hoping for. But times have… Read More >
HIX Announces Postponement
With a heavy heart, a real frustration and yet a sense of the inevitable, we have decided to postpone HIX 2020 until 2021. It hurts to write the above statement because we are still buzzing from our launch and feel a huge sense of gratitude for your support in making HIX London’s only hotel design… Read More >
Camira launches Deca, a vegan friendly and bleach cleanable PU
Camira are global textile innovators who love designing and manufacturing fabrics for a huge range of commercial interiors from offices to education to healthcare and hospitality. The company is forever pushing the boundaries of sustainable design and is the name behind industry leading textile innovations such as fabrics made from harvested nettles and commercially grown… Read More >
Malone Fabrics introduces skai® Design Lab – faux leather printed with your own design
Malone Fabrics Ltd is the exclusive distributor of skai synthetic leather for the UK and Ireland. The extensive range of synthetic leathers can be used for the Hospitality, Healthcare and Marine sectors and conform to the highest flame retardancy standards including Crib 5 and IMO. [Find Malone Fabrics on the BCFA Product Finder] With the… Read More >
Recycling at Trevira: Sustainable in many ways
Trevira GmbH is a European manufacturer of polyester speciality fibres and filament yarns for the textile industry, among them permanently flame retardant fibres and yarns for contract textiles under the brand name Trevira CS and Trevira CS Bioactive. From the curtains to upholstery fabrics, from wall coverings to partition blinds, from interior solar protection to… Read More >