OnOffice
www.onofficemagazine.com
Bright and lively new addition to editorial coverage of workplace design.
Workplace Intelligence Unit
www.workplaceintelligence.co.uk
Advice and trends in developing intelligent workplaces from furniture manufacturer Herman Miller.
Workplace Innovation from Cordless Group
www.cordless.co.uk
A portal on workplace futures from Philip Ross, an international expert on the role of wireless technologies in workplace change.
Knoll
www.knoll.com
Dispels some common myths about office design.
Eciffo
www.eciffo.jp
Japan's leading workplace design magazine, published by furniture company Kokuyo, has a wealth of ideas and case studies.
FIRA (Furniture Industries Research Association)
www.fira.co.uk
FIRA has a web resource for the furniture industry supply chain, including information for materials suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers.
These centres have the new workplace/work patterns as a key research focus:
Centre for Labour Market Studies
www.clms.le.ac.uk
The Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS) takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of work, organisations and employment.
Facilities Management Graduate Centre, Sheffield
www.shu.ac.uk/fmgc
Part of the Faculty of Organisation & Management at Sheffield Hallam University, the Centre carries out academic, grant aided and contract research, delivers education and training and offers consultancy services in all aspects of facilities management.
Design & Environmental Analysis Department, Cornell University
www.human.cornell.edu
Uses a broad-based set of social science and design methodologies to understand how the planning, design and management of the built environment affects individuals, groups, organizations and communities.
Kyushu University Faculty of Design
http://db.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/English/index.html
Research and education exploring the ‘humanization of technology’ and the creation of ideal living and working environments
Helen Hamlyn Centre
www.hhc.rca.ac.uk
The Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre explores the practical design implications of key social developments. It works with three design communities – students, new graduates, and professionals – to promote inclusive design through practical projects, research, events, exhibitions and publications.
BOSTI Assocs (Buffalo Organisation for Social and Technological Innovation)
www.bosti.com
Specialists in research-based workplace analysis for planning and design concepts and innovative ‘new officing’ solutions
Future Foundation
www.futurefoundation.net
The Future Foundation offers consultancy services to enable clients to understand social and consumer behaviour, develop new products and services, forecast new markets and set appropriate pricing strategies to exploit them.
The Work Foundation (formerly The Industrial Society)
www.theworkfoundation.com
The Work Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that brings working organisations together to find the best ways of improving both economic performance and quality of working life using rigorous evidence-based research.
These furniture, property and product firms have substantial workplace research programmes:
Steelcase Inc
www.steelcase.com
Jones Lang LaSalle
www.joneslanglasalle.co.uk
Herman Miller
www.hmeurope.com
Kinnarps
www.kinnarps.co.uk
Colebrook Bosson Saunders
www.cbsproducts.co.uk