Jim MeredithThe office is not a place for serendipitous encounters … but it could beYou could get confused about the recent and ongoing reaffirmation of the office as a place for the serendipitous encounters that generate…Jan 6, 2021Jan 6, 2021
Jim MeredithMoving onThere’s a lot this week about how remote work works and how it’s shaping cities.Oct 19, 2020Oct 19, 2020
Jim Meredith“Evidence” of the importance of the workplace, of getting back to the officeAs almost everyone who luckily still has a job, I am working from home in this very strange time in which most of everything has been put…Apr 12, 2020Apr 12, 2020
Jim MeredithIs the pandemic killing innovation…or relocating it?COVID-19 presents a significant challenge to the pathways and places where corporate innovation conventionally takes place. Has the…Apr 11, 2020Apr 11, 2020
Jim MeredithBeing present at the first shot(We haven’t published here in a while and as I post this, I realize it has some resonance with the last time we published here. This has a…Mar 4, 2020Mar 4, 2020
Jim MeredithOwners, occupiers, agents, architects — Let’s talk about the design brief.This tweet from Mark Catchlove grabbed my attention this morning. It now has me spinning through multiple dimensions of thinking about the…Oct 17, 2019Oct 17, 2019
Jim MeredithDoes your office need a “Fifth Place”?By now, everybody may be familiar with the concept of “the third place.” Beyond home and office, there is another place where people in the…Mar 5, 2018Mar 5, 2018
Jim MeredithCan we value workplace utilization metrics anymore?We are about to start a new workplace transformation project for a company in a very challenging and rapidly shifting business. They seek a…Jan 24, 2018Jan 24, 2018
Jim MeredithThe workplace of the useless classOver the past decade or more, “workplace strategy” has been about financial metrics (as measured in square feet per person and people per…Nov 24, 2017Nov 24, 2017
Jim MeredithThe first shot“I can tell whether a design engineer is good for our culture or not by seeing if he is there at the first shot.”Nov 22, 2017Nov 22, 2017