We have all asked ourselves the question what aspects of the office workspace do staff feel have the greatest impact on their productivity?

Dean Croucher & Duncan Mitchell recently presented to a group of Corporate Services Managers on improving premises planning and procurement. There are some provocative suggestions for how both public and private sector organisations can make more of the opportunity changes to the physical environment bring, in supporting transformational change.

Alice Cuttance, Workplace Strategist, at Dow Group recently led a tour of CAA's new premises in Wellington, which was well attended by local CoreNet members and clients. As part of this event Alice provided an overview of the workplace change process CAA undertook.

Associate Director, Paul Mautz has been actively involved in assisting clients affected by the Christchurch earthquakes. This hands-on experience led to an invitation to present the key lessons for tenants at the recent annual conference of the Property Institute of New Zealand.

New Zealand has historically relied on the US and Europe as two of its main export markets. But this is changing and creating new opportunities.

Dow Group has just completed analysis on how legal practices allocate and use their space.  Despite the general market trends towards less space per person, the average space for major legal practices remains above 20 m2 per person.

As part of recent work for an organisation in the Science and Innovation Sector, Dow undertook a literature review of some of latest the trends in workspaces for the science and research communities.  We found two interesting pieces of research that look at how workspaces can support the innovation process.