Achieving Successful Hybrid Work Experiences

Whether people are working in the office or at a remote location, we need to ensure performance, engagement, health and well-being are all considered when creating better work experiences. Ensuring presence equity is one way to ensure you’re bringing hybrid teams together in a meaningful way. Early in the pandemic, we adjusted to working from…

Employee experiences of the last eighteen months have permanently changed what people want and need from the workplace of the future. Based on extensive research conducted throughout the pandemic, Steelcase shared four refined design principles for better work environments. By applying these principles, it’s become easier to meet expectations from both employees and employers for…

Healthcare Heroes have been relentlessly serving their communities for the last 18+ months. Day in and day out, they have pulled on their scrubs and headed into work to continue the fight against COVID-19. They’ve endured “scrubbing out” and removing work clothes before entering their own homes, disinfecting and showering before saying hello to their…

Too often ancillary spaces look great but are underutilized. Unfortunately, they’re not always designed to be high performing or to support employees’ physical and cognitive well-being. Ancillary spaces need to work as hard as people do so they can do their best work. With an increase in hybrid work models, high performing workplaces require a…

In general, health organizations are designed to deliver safe and effective care with urgency and precision under any circumstances. But COVID-19 has significantly heightened this need and has illuminated the gaps in some facilities’ ability to meet demands. During a pandemic, the capacity to adapt and pivot becomes more imperative than ever. Health and safety…

Written by Rob Newell, Chief Technology Officer | dancker Workplace technology has long played a role in an organization’s agility – their ability to move quickly and easily through changing times. Central to dancker’s mission is our motivation to help our clients integrate technology into their workflow and their workspace, ensuring that it’s integrated with…

Now that a large percentage of the workforce has been required to work from home because of the Coronavirus pandemic, many of us are wondering – since employees have proven that they can effectively and efficiently work from home, do we even still need an office? The answer is yes…and it involves all the things…

Originally published by Steven Lang on LinkedIn on May 28, 2020 Success is no accident. Sure, you might get lucky once or twice but the people and organizations who have demonstrated and sustained success do so through determination and hard work repeated over time. But what else…what are the other contributing factors to success? Your…

Originally published in Healthcare Facilities Today on June 1, 2020 Written by Steve Lang, President & CEO | dancker While it was always recognized as useful, virtual technology has proven to be an irreplacable tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth visits have been on the rise since the start of the pandemic, and are expected to…

For years we have witnessed a growing trend as organizations created spaces that helped to pull people together and maximize their collective productivity. Open offices with a wide variety of spaces – collaboration zones, high-tech meeting rooms, cafes and lounges that create “a more relaxed and energetic environment that contrasts with the conventional approaches organizations…

Originally published in Workplaces Magazine, May 2020 Edition Written by Kevin Klier, SEVP & GM | dancker While being in the same room as your teammates can’t be replaced, technology can certainly help remote workers form better connections with one another. The key to making it a successful experience is thinking about the setup of…

Virtual healthcare visits – medical consultations that take place remotely using video and audio connections – are becoming the industry’s new normal. They’re predicted to soar to more than one billion in 2020, according to Forrester, including 900 million virtual visits related to COVID-19. “Forrester also expects time and resource constraints to create a supply…