Strategic Workplace Management: The key to unlocking competitiveness Over the years, research has proven that workplace design significantly affects employee job performance, and the overall efficiency of a business. And in today’s competitive business environment, corporations can no longer afford to let the talents of their workforce go wasted. Gitte Andersen, Global Head of Workspace […]
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In the monthly edition of the magazine FM Update, Global Head of Workspace Management & Design, Gitte Andersen, tells us how to attract and maintain Millenniums and how data is a prerequisite for strategic space design. “We can not ignore it anymore – systematic evidence and data on how workplace design is closely related to […]
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“Today, good workplace design is a lot more about networking, interactions, the contents of your job – and being in physical surroundings that are super creative, pretty and aesthetic. A decade ago, hygiene factors such as a good acoustic work environment, indoor climate, good daylight were discussed. I don’t say they are insignificant, but today […]
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In the monthly edition of the magazine Youth Schools you can read an article by Gitte Andersen, Global Head of Workspace Management & Design at SIGNAL and Christine Antorini, former Minister of Education. In connection with the 75th anniversary of the youth schools, Gitte and Christine investigates the long tradition of democratic architecture and democratic learning […]
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The agenda for the new book ‘Kloge kvadratmeter’ is to show and discuss the different opportunities for space, behavior, learning and well-being by providing simple methods to uncover and transform the many hidden space resources that are waiting to be activated. Read Gitte Andersen, Global Head of Workspace Management and Design at SIGNAL, and former […]
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Many are under the impression that building is expensive – when in actuality it is not the buildings costs but the operation and maintenance expenses you should be most nervous about when building. If the municipalities dare and are allowed to think in overall economy, we can gain better buildings and lower costs and thereby […]
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Denmark is currently embarking on the ‘New Nordic School’ project, designed to nurture the values and characteristics that have ensured the success of the Danish education system as architectural leader, Gitte Andersen, explains here in an interview with the Pan European Networks Quality of space
Read moreFROM OLD TO NEW – Things worth to consider before the private school is moving in. This article was published in Friskolebladet 2012, no. 8, 14 May 2012 Today approximately 100,000 children attend a private school in Denmark. There are about 500 of them throughout the country. During the past couple of years, more have come. […]
Read moreCAUGHT BETWEEN PHYSICAL BOUNDARIES AND PEDAGOGICAL, ORGANISATIONAL INTENTIONS. The school’s mental and physical rebuilding. The Danish government has recently launched its ambitious, dialogue-based reform effort “Ny Nordisk Skole” (New Nordic School, ed.) that aims to enhance the professional standards among practitioners in the field of children and education across day care, primary and secondary schools, […]
Read moreThis article was published in Efterskolen, no. 15, 10 May 2012 Recently, Radio 24/7 spoke about the decrease in boarding school students – a number that has decreased by approximately 1,000 students after many years of stability. The diagnose was clear. Smaller classes in the primary schools, a financial crisis, and an increase in boarding […]
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