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Are some sectors simply unsuitable for activity-based working, or is that the wrong level of analysis? This article explains why open-plan ABW performance depends less on sector stereotypes and more on whether design, behaviour and technology work together as one coherent support system. The sector debate hides the more useful diagnosis This paper analyses 2,090 […]

Four decades of European work data tell a simple story: the workforce has changed more than many workplace models have. Eurofound's reflection on the European Working Conditions Survey is therefore more than a labour-market update. It is a warning to workplace strategists. If the assumptions behind the workplace model are outdated, the strategy will underperform. […]

Why does the open-plan versus enclosed debate keep surviving even when it produces weak decisions? One reason is that office type is easy to talk about but too crude to diagnose performance. This article explains why workplace productivity analysis should focus on task fit, interaction control, layout variety and user profiling before teams start defending […]

Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey 2024 is not a workplace strategy manual. But it gives workplace strategists something highly valuable: a structured way to understand work before making decisions about space, policy or change. This article explains a practical workplace strategy framework that starts with the workforce, then connects workplace practices, job quality and sustainable […]