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The Harvard studies on the unintended effects of open office defines it as space where 'one entire floor was open, transparent and boundaryless… [with] assigned seats,' and the other had 'similarly assigned seats in an open office design, with large rooms of desks and monitors and no dividers between people's desks.'
The competition for great tenants has rarely been as fierce as it is today.
Autism, in part, gave us modern architecture, writes PDR’s Julie Troung.
PDR Principal Larry Lander explains how to design for workplaces where four generations are working together.
Based in Houston, PDR specializes in the delivery of innovative workplace design and solutions. As a world-class, workplace consultancy and a premier creative design firm, our integrated services address both business requirements and the work environment to create high performance spaces designed to evolve over time. We have worked with global companies, real estate advisors, and developers to continuously redefine the high performance workplace. We are a hybrid design firm; 1/3 business consulting, 2/3 workplace architecture. PDR recognizes the workplace as a key strategic asset in promoting the effective integration of talent, process, and technology to maximize business performance and enable business success.
We know how companies work, how different generations of people want to work, and how to create a workplace that is as agile as your business.
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The Harvard studies on the unintended effects of open office defines it as space where 'one entire floor was open, transparent and boundaryless… [with] assigned seats,' and the other had 'similarly assigned seats in an open office design, with large rooms of desks and monitors and no dividers between people's desks.'
The competition for great tenants has rarely been as fierce as it is today.
Autism, in part, gave us modern architecture, writes PDR’s Julie Troung.
PDR Principal Larry Lander explains how to design for workplaces where four generations are working together.
Building trust takes time and consistency, and is typically much easier to break than build.
Organizations are starting to realize that there are benefits to addressing employee wellbeing.
Differentiated from mock-ups or beta sites, workplace pilots are small scale built work environments, where an organization’s employees permanently reside and work on a daily basis.
Larry Lander, a Principal with PDR and a registered architect, discusses how modularity can improve a workplace for the business and the individual.
Karen Wetmore, Lead Designer at PDR, talks about what’s trending with materials and colors in the workplace.
Organizations that purposefully craft and develop their culture experience a 14% turnover rate, whereas organizations that ignore their culture experience a 48% turnover rate, writes PDR Senior Consultant Christine Mikhail.
