Author: The CadM Team
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The Generational Response to COVID-19: Gen Z
Kasasa, an award-winning financial tech and marketing company, states that Generation Z is categorised as individuals born between 1995 and 2015. Through this time, Zoomers would have little to no memory of the horrific September 11 attacks which shook the world. However, we will have memories of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Although the Pandemic presents a…
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The Workplace Generational Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In late 2019, prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, employees in the workplace spanned 4 or 5 generations: The Silent Generation; Baby Boomers; Gen X; Gen Y; and Gen Z. Only a few of the oldest generation remain in the workforce, being 75+ and past retirement age. Baby Boomers span from 55-75 years old, either looking…
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The Rule of Three: Planning your back to work strategy
What will your comeback story look like? There are four (4) key questions around the new office normal that deserve your attention. Our space management team of experts weighs in. Who will return to the office and what will it look like when we get there? Workspace will look different as we move out of…
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How Accurate Should Social Distancing Be?
Pictured on the left are former England football stars Peter Crouch and Steven Gerrard (two of my favourite players) sharing a lighter moment. As you can clearly see they are about the same height. You disagree? Well I can’t say I blame you because Steven is 6’ tall and Peter is 6’7” (2m) and to…
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CadM’s COVID-19 Update
As the Corona virus (Covid-19) situation develops we wanted to provide you with some useful information. In accordance with Government guidelines, to protect our staff and to observe social distancing rules both the UK and US office premises are closed. All members of the CadM team are working remotely to ensure our clients can get…
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Why you can’t make Eeyore happier
If you have read Yuval Noah Harari’s excellent book “Sapiens” you will be familiar with the Lottery Problem. This maintains that everyone has a natural level of serotonin and dopamine (the chemical compounds in our bodies that produce feelings of happiness) and that even if you raise this via an incredibly positive experience such as…
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Boiled Frogs and the Generation Gap
Folklore has it that you can boil a live frog in a pan of water whose temperature increases so gradually that the poor creature does not notice the change. It’s something I have referenced when talking about the passage of time in talks about generations in the workspace, the main point here being that we…
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Can simple changes in the working environment improve engagement and productivity?
Peter Townshend of Know More investigates. It’s a worrying thought that most of us don’t seem to like our jobs much. Figures from Gallup suggest that only 13% of global workers are “psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations.” Worse than this, nearly half of those unengaged employees are…
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Desk vs House Costs
When people ask me what our company does I usually say “we are saving the world… one desk at a time!” It often turns out that the costs companies incur maintaining a single workstation are comparable with the cost of living in an apartment in the same region. According to REIS, the average US office…
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
What interests me is how the technological innovations likely to make their mark in the next few years may affect workspace management. Let’s just call it the “Bring your own Big Data Workspace of Things” to keep it simple… but first some background. The first three revolutions take us through the last 250 years or…