0 Global Report Indicates Majority of Offices Remain Old Fashioned

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Shared office space at Wework in Boston

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Soft phone or tethered is a question that many new employees get on their first day on the job.  The notion that today’s employee can operate effectively without defined hard space in the office is foreign to previous generations.  The worker today might be employed by a company that exists in co-working space or by a company with an open seating plan.

What is your preferred work space?

From Boston.com:

A new Global Workplace Report by office furniture company Steelcase cited in a Boston.com article, which surveyed over 12,000 office workers in 17 countries, asked employees a variety of questions about how office space design affected their engagement with their work. Steelcase found that when it comes to technology updates and work environments, most companies are a long way off from having the office of the future…86 percent of workers said they had landline phones, and 80 percent had desktop computers.

As for office layout, only 23 percent of employees said their company had an open floor plan. Much more common were workspaces with a combination of open floor plan and individual offices, at 46 percent, while 31 percent of workers said their workplace only had individual offices.

You can read more on the Workplace report on Boston.com.

0 Congress Street Bridge will be Illuminated at Night

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Congress St. Bridge in Boston Seaport

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The use of light as art with bridges as a canvas have become the mainstay of nightlife in our cities.  The Bay Bridge lighting designed by Leo Villareal is a captivating light show over the Bay.  I look forward to what is in store for Congress Street.

Some of my other favorites are from the London Olympics:

Southwark bridge lit at night

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Bridge with neon lights glowing at night

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0 GE Picks Seaport Office Space in Fort Point Channel

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GE's new office space in Fort Point

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GE has selected their location for the new corporate headquarters that sits on the edge of the Seaport overlooking Boston’s Financial District.

From the Boston Globe:

GE on Thursday said that it has reached a deal with Procter & Gamble to buy a roughly 2.5-acre piece of Gillette’s South Boston campus along Fort Point Channel, near the Summer Street Bridge and a short walk from South Station.

There, the company plans to rehab two empty brick warehouses — relics of the industrial waterfront — and construct a new building on a portion of an adjacent parking lot. There will be a large sign visible from downtown and public space that will showcase GE’s storied history. The location is firmly in Fort Point, a funky neighborhood full of smaller tech and creative firms that GE wants to tap as it transforms its business.

0 Bikes Make Life Better

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Bikes make life betterBikes Make Life Better is an organization focused on just that. The vision is to integrate bikes into corporate culture to impact people, the planet and profitability. They do this through a combination of consulting, discounted product sales and ongoing operational support.

If your company is looking to roll out a program give them a shout and see if they can help you.

 

0 Vegan Restaurant to Open at 101 Seaport Blvd

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Seaport restaurant

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New eats are coming to 101 Seaport Boulevard. This is not your traditional eatery, but rather vegan style with roots in NYC.

A BBJ article notes, “Chef Chloe Coscarelli — known for being the first vegan chef to win the Food Network’s popular reality show “Cupcake Wars” — and co-partner Samantha Wasser have plans to open a 48-seat restaurant at 101 Seaport Boulevard. The newly opened 17-story glass office is home to accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.”

You can read more on the BBJ.

0 Government Center T station Reopens

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The Government Center T Stop will welcome commuters and visitors after a two-year renovation.

Government Center T

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“After sitting shuttered for two years for renovations, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s 17th busiest rapid transit station will open after a midday ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 21,” according to an article on Boston.com.

You can read the full article, here.

 

0 Boston Tech Firms Trumpet Amenities to Attract Top Talent

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Cayan offices in Boston

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In the recruiting arena for tech jobs amenities is key. Nap rooms seem to be the latest amenity being added to the roster.

From the BBJ:

Cayan, a Boston-based payment technology company, has invested $8 million to renovate its offices at One Federal St. in Boston’s Financial District as well as the company’s office in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast. CEO Henry Helgeson said the renovation was part of an effort to attract and retain top talent — particularly software engineers, which are in increasingly high demand in Boston’s uber-competitive tech world.

 

0 LEGO Education Opens HQ in Back Bay

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new lego education building in Back Bay

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Lego is amazing and I used it as a kid and my kids now use it. It has evolved in so many ways and I never figured I would work a few blocks for their office which is now located at 501 Boylston Street in Boston Back Bay.

LEGO Fun Facts:

  • There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants. Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
  • LEGO bricks are available in 53 different colors.
  • 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year. 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.
  • More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.
  • Two eight-stud LEGO bricks of the same color can be combined in 24 different ways. Three eight-stud bricks can be combined in 1,060 ways. There are more than 915 million combinations possible for six 2 x 4 LEGO bricks of the same color.
  • 7 LEGO sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.
  • The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.
  • 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked on top of one another would connect the earth with the moon.

 

0 100 Federal Street Adding Restaurant and Amenities

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Boston Properties has plans and approvals to add retail amenities to 100 Federal Street in the Financial District.  100 Federal Street was built in 1971 and renovated in 1992.  The building consists of 1,323,000 rentable square feet in 40 stories with 205 parking spaces below grade.  Boston Properties purchased the building in October of 2014 for $877.76 per square foot.  The building only has availability on the 33rd floor of 20,095 square feet.

Rendering of redevelopment at 100 Federal Street

Credit: Curbed Boston

According to Curbed, the “commission just signed off on the plans, which include 8,500 square feet of retail, 500 square feet of kiosk space, and an 8,990-square-foot, street-level winter garden under plenty of glass.”

You can read more on the plans on Curbed’s Boston publication.