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What the F is Happening to the Office?The workplace is being reinvented—and we're talking to the people leading the charge. From architects to real estate strategists, tech innovators to culture experts, this podcast dives into the seismic shifts reshaping where and how we work.
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Engagement Does Not Drive Revenue - So What Does? | Dr. Yasmeen J. Coning (opens the original)
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Happy employees don't necessarily produce better business results. In this episode of What the F* is Happening to the Office?, Bob Fox talks with Dr. Yasmeem Coning, founder of Ember, about why engagement, the metric most companies lean on, may be too sentiment-driven to actually predict revenue, retention, or performance. The real driver, she argues, is something deeper: collective organizational identification, or how strongly people connect their work to their own self-concept.Yasmeem breaks
The Science Behind Thermostat Wars | Nicola Gerrett, Ph.D. (opens the original)
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Every office has that one person who's freezing while everyone else is fine. In this episode, Bob Fox talks with Dr. Nicola Garrett, Ph. D. a thermophysiologist at Gentherm and one of roughly 300 people in the world who study this for a living. Nicola's background is in human performance, soldiers in extreme environments, elite athletes, drivers, and she's now bringing that science into the office. They dig into why office HVAC systems were built around a narrow, outdated user profile; why body
Why Open Offices Fail — and What Actually Works | Adam Morgan (opens the original)
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A consulting firm spent 18 months designing the perfect workspace. Six months after move-in, they tore it out. That one moment launched Adam Morgan on a mission to rethink everything about how offices get built — and why most of them are still getting it wrong.Adam is co-founder of Bureau, a company that designs and builds soundproof booths for modern workplaces. But his perspective goes far beyond the product. Coming from a finance background, Adam thinks about the office as a performance syste
It's a Time Problem: How AI Could Save Apprenticeship in Design | Valerie Trent (opens the original)
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Somewhere right now, a talented designer is copy-pasting details, finishes, and door schedules into a set of CDs — instead of designing the inspiring workplace needed to bring a fragmented team back to the office. That's not a people problem. That's a time problem.In this episode, Bob Fox sits down with Valerie Trent, a licensed designer (NCIDQ, LEED AP ID+C) who spent about a decade practicing before starting a technology company. She realized firms were burning most of their hours on documenta
Nature Inside: What the Best Workplaces Already Know | Bill Browning & Catie Ryan (opens the original)
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What if the single most powerful thing you could do to bring people back to the office had nothing to do with perks, mandates, or the latest collaboration tech and everything to do with trees, light, and the patterns found in nature?In this episode, Bill Browning and Catie Ryan of Terrapin Bright Green, authors of Nature Inside and 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design, make the case that biophilic design and biophilia in the workplace are no longer optional extras but essential workplace strategy for
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