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Defining and Executing a Workplace Strategy This blog post walks through the new definition of a workplace strategy, post-COVID workplace conundrums, and three steps you can use to tailor your workplace strategy to the needs of your organization and employees. The very fabric of the workplace has changed dramatically–and likely, forever. In 2020, like a […]

4 Activities (Other Than Socialization) That Draw People to Offices Socialization is a great way to increase office engagement–but what other activities can draw employees back to in-person spaces? Offering a clubhouse office has become a great way to drive office engagement. These workspaces are “epicenters of employee culture, connection, and community” and predominantly drive […]

Providing a Safe and Frictionless Office Experience When it comes to workplace safety, it’s no longer enough for offices to be merely “up to code”–they now have to be frictionless and adaptive to disruption.

“Invisible” Design Elements That Spark Innovation When an office seamlessly functions for the employee, the end-user doesn’t notice it–they intuitively experience it. Good design isn’t seen “Good” design isn’t seen and provides an engaging space where people naturally want to be. When this happens, innovative moments between co-workers often occur but getting that perfect design […]

Saltmine User Spotlight: Equitable Workspaces With Mark Wartenberg Americas Infrastructure Lead Mark Wartenberg, a 30+ year veteran of workplace innovation, design, and strategy, values creating equitable workspaces, via an equitable design process. When it comes to workplace innovator and strategist, Mark Wartenberg (Nike), there are a few fundamental understandings he embraces. Mark believes office space […]

Understanding the State and Quality of Workplace Data Understanding the state and quality of your workplace’s data is key for making informed space planning decisions and future space iterations. When it comes to your future of work, the state and quality of your data matters and for many space planners and occupiers, the granularity of […]

Interoperability for Real Estate and Space Management Data Having robust interoperability support in software removes tedious steps and prevents data loss that bogs down workflows. It’s fair to say that businesses today depend on having seamless access to their data across their entire software suite. Given the length and complexity of most real estate projects, […]

Sustainability: 4 Immediate Opportunities to Make Offices Greener Greener offices are good for business, your corporate real estate portfolio, and most of all, the planet. As sustainability becomes a main focal point to overall business objectives, workplace teams have a prime opportunity to lead their organizations to be more responsive to climate change. Going green […]

Why Modern Occupancy Planning Matters Evolving workplace and workforce norms and trends have created a crucial demand for modern occupancy planning methodologies and technologies. The technologies and methodologies occupiers and workplace teams utilized for occupancy planning before Covid are losing relevance for many reasons. In this blog post, we will explore: What’s “broken” about how […]

Capturing Employee Behavior to Better Inform Space Planning Office space planning is all about providing employees with an appealing and comfortable environment. Having a well-planned office space is crucial to catering to all your employees’ needs in an office environment. Since your employees will be spending a large majority of their time in the office, […]

Capturing Employee Behavior to Better Inform Space Planning Key takeaways from our webinar, “Informing Space: The Intersection of People and Data.” A few weeks ago, Saltmine hosted a webinar with two workplace data and space planning experts from JLL. Hannah Kumlin and Jay West are passionate about two things: leveraging data to enhance the employee’s […]

How CRE Has Changed: An Interview with Simon Davis from Impec Group Corporate real estate has forever changed as a result of the pandemic and all eyes are on workplace and real estate teams. At the top of many business leaders’ minds is their real estate portfolio. How can we draw people back in (and […]

3 Reasons Why Your Office Should Be a “Clubhouse” Clubhouse offices completely lend themselves to fostering human connection and may be a great way to attract people back into the office. To incentivize employees to come back into the office, many advocate that offices should be flipped into more “clubhouse”-style workspaces. Before the pandemic, these […]

Why Data About People and Space Matters VergeSense x Saltmine bridges the gap between utilization data and workplace design, planning, and strategy. Understanding how employees actually use space is more important than ever. As distributed and hybrid workforces become the norm, properly optimizing space has become increasingly more complex. The need to capture accurate, real-time […]

The 3 Qualities of Modern Offices To be a modern office space is to be human-centric, thoughtfully designed, and adaptive to disruption. Engaging and modern office spaces are centered around one thing–the human. They are fueled by how unique individuals, teams, and orgs actually work. People are dynamic and as such, offices should be responsive […]

The 4 Do’s and Don’ts of Corporate Real Estate Corporate real estate is actively changing and increasingly complex; however, like anything, there are some clear do’s and don’ts. The uncertainties and unknowns challenging corporate real estate practices and procedures are evolving, nuanced, and in many cases, unpredictable. The “return-to-office” is murky and complex. New Covid […]

Creating Captivating Stakeholder Engagement During the Design Process Workplace design processes are changing–especially when it comes to effectively engaging stakeholders. Learn more in this week’s blog post. During many of my conversations with occupiers, workplace, and RE teams over the last two years, I have repeatedly heard many feel like they’re in uncharted territory. It’s […]

Different Office Cultures and Workplace Technology If no individual employee works the same, then not every company culture is the same either. So, what happens when different office cultures collide?

Beyond Functionality: Making Offices Purposeful and Safe It’s time to get serious about how to make offices not only functional but also purposeful and safe. The following piece was reviewed by Saltmine’s Anvitha Boloor. Anvitha is a member of our Strategic Advisory Services team at Saltmine. With an architectural background and three and a half […]

Workplace Design, The Gap of Post-Occupancy Analysis, and Saltmine’s 3.7 The wants and needs of your workforce are more important to your real estate portfolio than you may think. The employee experience (EX) is more important to your real estate (RE) portfolio and workplace than you may think. In fact, not only is it critical […]

5 Ways to Plan, Design, and Execute Employee-Centric Workplaces Last week, we hosted a webinar with Kate Lister and Mark Wartenberg–here’s a recap of how to plan, design, and execute an employee-centric workplace. To recap our recent webinar, workplace strategy and design innovators Kate Lister (Global Workplace Analytics) and Mark Wartenberg (Nike) had a candid […]

Workplace Design, The Gap of Post-Occupancy Analysis, and Saltmine’s 3.7 How a workplace evolves–with your people in mind–should be at the foundation of your workplace design. Here’s how Saltmine’s 3.7 release can help. One of the biggest gaps in workplace design is the lack of access to post-occupancy analysis. Even though the data collected in […]

Ready or Not: Here Comes the Hybrid Workplace Organizations are only beginning to grapple with the issues of creating an effective hybrid workplace. We talked with Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics (GWA), a research and consulting firm that helps employers understand and prepare for the future of work. Kate shared her insights into what’s working and what’s not […]