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…

Concern for student and educator well-being has been a growing trend for years which has now been exacerbated by the pandemic. While each face their separate challenges, both groups are impacted in ways that prevent them from being able to do their best learning and teaching. Whether in-person, remote, or a hybrid blending of both…

Spring is a time when we reset and often pause to think about fresh starts. From spring cleaning to checking on milestones we set at the beginning of the new year, it’s usually a hopeful and exciting time. Following 10 months of adjusting to life during a pandemic, we were all hopeful as we counted…

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…

Originally published in Baltimore Business Journal on July 10, 2020 Written by Nathan Kooi, Vice President & General Manager | Mid-Atlantic | dancker For most of us, the Coronavirus pandemic has meant discovering new ways to work, from sitting in your basement with a laptop to connecting to your colleagues and clients via Zoom meetings (some…

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…