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Hello there, merry office elves! With the festive season just around the corner, it's time to sprinkle a bit of holiday magic into your shared workspace. Who said Christmas decorations are reserved for homes? Let's turn that drab office into a winter wonderland and spread the joy like confetti! Whether you're sharing a space with colleagues or working in a co-working hub, here's a jolly guide on how to transform your shared office into a festive paradise.

There’s a lot more to a successful office layout than meets the eye. With thoughtful design considerations, modern office layouts can help create dynamic and adaptable work environments, encouraging collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams while enabling a business to evolve and thrive.

If you've ever walked into an office and felt uncomfortable, you're not alone. For neuro diverse people, the typical office environment can be especially challenging. Neuro diversity refers to the idea that there are different ways of thinking and processing information that are all valid and should be respected. People who are neuro diverse may have conditions such as autism, dyslexia, ADHD, or other cognitive differences.

If you work in a school in the UK, you know that the job can be incredibly demanding. Teaching, administration, and everything in between can leave you feeling drained and overwhelmed. That's why having a breakout space is so important for teachers and school staff.

Spring is a wonderful time of year with the sun shining, flowers blooming, and birds singing. It's a time of renewal and rejuvenation, making it the perfect time to refresh your office. After a long winter, your office may be feeling a bit stale and uninspired. Here are some updates you can make to give your workspace a new lease of life this spring.

When setting up or renovating an office, furniture is one of the most significant expenses that can quickly add up. Office furniture like chairs, desks, cabinets, and tables, among others, can take a significant chunk of the budget. However, there is an option that can help businesses save money without compromising on quality - buying pre-loved or second-hand office furniture.

Like so many businesses, we’re encouraged to develop a purpose, or mission for us all to hang off and refer back to when we ask ourselves ‘why are we doing this, or doing that’ – What is our purpose and do our business practices and behaviours sit well with it?

We all know that the pandemic changed the way we work with working from home and hybrid working becoming common place.

According to BBC News the most popular office days are Tuesday to Thursday with UK workers only going into the office an average of 1.5 days a week, only 13% of those go in on a Friday.

The environment and climate change have been high on the agenda for many years now. Plans and policies have been developed to mitigate some of our impacts. Some of these may feel like a threat to our way of life or business via legislative restrictions. Some are impacting costs, such as the tax on activities including waste, fossil fuel use, plastic bags etc. Yet still, we are not seeing any positive news in terms of what sometimes feels like our headlong rush toward a climate catastrophe. Whilst we know climate change is a long-term process how can I maintain motivation when the consequences seem far off or unconnected with our daily lives? 

Do we really want to have our cake and eat it? Do we want to continue with excessive, unsustainable consumption of resources and still have plenty left to support us and future generations? 

Does it feel like changing to more sustainable ways means we will lose some of the things we value now?  

If so then maybe a re-evaluation of what we really want is needed. Maybe that way we can flip our mindset. What is the real compromise? 

Imagine the perfect world, one where we don’t have to worry about destroying the future for us and our families and future generations. Anything less is the real compromise. 

In the last article, we looked at how to maintain or improve profit margins whilst improving our business’ environmentally sustainability and encouraging our customers and clients to do so. The fear is that if we encourage customers to move away from a consumption-based lifestyle our business will lose sales and therefore profit. We showed that there are ways to overcome this and make our businesses more sustainable AND maintain profit. But is maintaining profit enough? 

In the last article, we looked at the potential cost-saving implications of moving to more environmentally friendly practices. This article explores the impact on the other side of the equation, namely profit. If reducing consumption is the way forward to saving the planet what will happen to our profits if they rely on revenue from the consumption of products and resource-intensive services?