Kursty Groves

Top New Year’s Resolution Tips for your Workplace Environment

by Kursty Groves December 21, 2011
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How not to create an inspiring workplace environment! It’s that time of year again when the halls are decked, lights twinkle at every turn, and the main topic of conversation at the tea point is the Christmas party: Are we having one this year?  Did you know the budget has been halved this year? What’s

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Creating Collaboration in the Workplace

by Kursty Groves October 24, 2011
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“The Link” at Bloomberg’s NY headquarters is designed to enable casual collisions. Photograph copyright Edward Denison Collaboration in the workplace: excerpts from a “Women in Facilities Management” (WIFM) event held at Boss Design, London October 5th, 2011. Presented by Sarah Jones – Grey Interiors, Sarah Godowski – Bisset Adams Architects & Kursty Groves – Author of “I Wish I Worked

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Growing Up But Staying Innocent, Part 2

by Kursty Groves September 6, 2011

Interview with Innocent Drinks’ John Durham Innocent Drinks has gained a reputation not only for healthy, great-tasting smoothies, juices and “Veg Pots”, it is a company that many know for its relaxed yet buzzy working environment, fitted out with quirky touches and Astroturf for carpet. For the majority of the last 12 years, Innocent operated

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Acoustics in the Workplace: The Sound of Success

by Kursty Groves June 14, 2011

We’ve all heard the complaints that usually accompany open-plan offices: “I can’t hear myself think”, “It’s impossible to hold a private conversation without being overheard”, and “It’s a mobile phone, for goodness sake – that means you can go somewhere else to chat loudly!” Often when it comes to designing a working environment, functionality and

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Growing Up But Staying Innocent

by Kursty Groves May 5, 2011

How Innocent Drinks has kept their youthful workplace spirit despite growth I couldn’t resist dropping by to Innocent Drinks’ fondly named “Fruit Towers” this week to sample the moving in celebrations and of course pick their brains about the move. The following extracts from I Wish I Worked There! – A Look Inside the Most

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How Google Has Become One of the World’s Most Enviable Workplaces

by Kursty Groves March 31, 2011

Can lava lamps and beanbags REALLY inspire innovation? News travels fast when there’s a new cool office that’s been opened – especially when that office belongs to one of the most talked-about companies in the world: Google.  With about a billion requests processed per day by the ubiquitous search machine, Google’s bid to ‘organise the

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New Labmate intro: Kursty Groves vs lame office design

by Kursty Groves March 2, 2011

Grey, uniform open-plan desking. Flickering overhead strip lighting. Angry dog-eared complaints about the state of the sink in the kitchen from ‘management’…any of this sound familiar? Despite the fact that we spend most of our waking hours at work, people are still subjected to dull, uninspiring work environments that simply do not support them to

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