Category: Our Thoughts
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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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How to Select a Space Management Software Provider
A good Space Management software provider can have a significant positive impact on your company. The effective use of your workplaces is an important contributor to success. Reviewing software functionality ( ‘the demo’) is an important part of your selection process but there are a number of other considerations that will help you, not only get…
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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…
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Keeping Up With Change
Buildingi’s Amber Miller looks at the expectations of the multi-generational workforce and how to get them to play together nicely. How happy they will be if we start to attach sensors directly to them is another matter. It has already begun to occur with European companies trialling under-skin microchip implants and other less invasive systems. It’s…