Organizations across Canada have increasingly turned to surveillance technologies during the pandemic as a way to monitor their employees' work behaviour.

Brightly-coloured lounge furniture, in a peachy warm palette, curves around a stone fireplace in the living room of Hootsuite’s newly transformed Vancouver headquarters that was downsized during the pandemic.

The real estate and property management industries may face particular hurdles with respect to implementing the proposed disconnecting from work policy.

Right now, the world is awash with buzzwords, trends, and experts who claim they know exactly what the future workplace will look like.

Through the doors of Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, the first hospital to ever rise in Vaughan, Ontario, life’s health challenges are met with comfort, safety and lots of natural light.

Though solar energy has been utilized for some time, adoption has been hampered by poor aesthetics, high price tags and slow production.

From now on, companies will distinguish themselves by the enhanced experience they are able to offer their employees who take the time and effort to travel to the office.

Every team should create a checklist, and then continually review their internal systems—floor by floor—to reveal any possible failure points.

As employees eventually return to the office, most will bring with them a heightened sensitivity to their surroundings—specifically to what they touch and their proximity to coworkers.

Organizations are now encouraged to develop a change management process based on a new understanding of the post-COVID needs of their people.

Newly released guidelines offer a standard for approaching the planning and designing of healthcare facilities from a resiliency perspective.

With fire equipment, the biggest culprit for non-compliance issues usually involves obstructions blocking fire extinguishers and hoses from view.

The pandemic is pushing people to reconsider their post-work-life ambitions.

Just as bricks-and-mortar stores embraced experiential retail to entice consumers who might otherwise shop online, organizations are now hoping to woo their remote-savvy workers back to the office.

Recognizing the dangers of combustible dust accumulations will help to ensure the prevention of explosions.

At last, our buildings are ready to catch up with the conveniences and expectations that future users have come to expect in the 21st century—and COVID has been the much-needed accelerant for this transformation in the building industry.

Universities need to consider what a gentler return to campuses might look for students this time around compared to 2020.