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Ramidus provides a blend of built environment, research and workplace advice. Our research provides investors, developers, policymakers and co-professionals with insight into drivers of change in the economy and property markets. Our workplace advice helps occupiers connect their occupation of space with business drivers and operational priorities.
A History of the Office and Office Work
From Castle to Condominium
published April 2025
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Perspectives - #18: Workplace and Workplace: Beyond Hybrid to Network - May 2025
The implications of long-term changes in the nature of work will be far more profound than the impact of hybrid working. This Perspectives suggests that we stand on the cusp of a new era of work, in which the role of work on society and in our lives is being transformed.
The nature of the company is evolving; the concept of traditional management is being fundamentally challenged, and our engagement with work is moving on from the Protestant ethic.
In the network era, organisation and worker will be mutually interdependent – collaborating, co-operating and creating value for mutual advantage.
Once management has reinvented itself, and once the nature of the relationship between organisation and worker becomes clearer, then we will better understand what kind of physical spaces are required to support work
London Office Market Update #10: Hybrid, Napping Pods & Food Halls
February 2025
London continues its post-pandemic recovery. Take-up is running at near-pre pandemic levels. There is even evidence of occupiers expanding their footprints rather than retrenching in the face of hybrid working. Vacancy remains stable and new schemes are being consented. Despite the latter, 2025 and 2026 could see supply constraints as occupiers seek high quality space to attract staff to the office. Overall the picture is a positive one, albeit tempered by political and economic uncertainty which could derail recovery.
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Perspectives - #17: Hybrid, Workplace Satisfaction and Productivity: Where is HR? - December 2024
After almost five years, hybrid working, workplace satisfaction and productivity continue to dominate public debate on ‘Workplace’, but what real progress have we made? Much public debate is repetitive, comprising endless opinions, faux research, unverifiable surveys and ‘advertorial’. Why are we singularly failing to move to the next phase?
Here we argue that the key reason is the lack of engagement from management generally, and HR in particular – the single corporate function with clout and scope to effect change in all three. If we only could align the best thinking in ‘workplace’ with positive and progressive management thinking, then real strides might be made on workstyles, satisfaction and productivity.
London Office Update - #9: VC, FDI,Science & Flex, DCs & HE - October 2024.
In our latest sideways look at the London Office Market, the last for 2024, we summarise the latest news on jobs and investment; occupier activity and new development; life science and flex space: and the rise of data centres in the capital. We also highlight the need for the new government to prioritise labour supply to help London remain competitive.
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