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NearU Pro in 2025: Built-In Research Tools for Advanced Workspace Planning
Our ongoing research and articles will now be shared within NearU Pro!
Four Key Trends Defining the Office of Tomorrow (2025 Edition)
Explore 2025’s top office trends: hybrid work, smart tech, ethical AI, and wellness-focused design reshaping the future of modern workplace strategy.
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Learning from crisis: the SDGs
Sometimes the world needs crises but it is important that we turn the challenges presented into opportunities for change...
Airbnb’s design for living and working anywhere
People have become more flexible with where they live and how they work and the transition between the two is becoming seamless. In response to the increase in desired flexibility, Airbnb has recently...
Hybrid typologies - a tool for innovation
As our lives become more fluid – transitioning between responsibilities and identities irrespective of location – the spaces we inhabit must become dynamic in their use to ensure the future resilience...
Apple: Decentralisation from Silicon Valley
Are we seeing the decline of Silicon Valley? Or are other factors at play in the fall of the global centre for high tech and innovation?
The future of workspace
Companies will need to offer environments that enable a bigger range of choice, inclusivity and a wider perspective of what work is, how and where it can be done. Work has changed from a place that we...
Privacy or Power? Data, power and our new digital reality
The nature of our digital rights as citizens is evolving rapidly – faster than ever before. Whilst nations and their governments do their best to keep up with changing times it is difficult to truly u...
The Power of Social Media
The power of social media lies in its ability to act as a catalyst for social change and recent times have shown us signs of such influence but are we prepared for everything that it has to offer us?
Why workspace still matters
WFH is slowly becoming the new norm for some and whilst other employees still await a full return to the office, many are hopeful that this will be an opportunity for change – a time to reflect on the...