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A redesign of a brutalist building at 412 St Kilda Road by architects Gray Puksand is going against the vacancy trend.

Can a brutalist redesign counter the scourge of empty offices?

Landlords across the country have seen the value of their office towers plummet by around 23 per cent, on average, over the last two years.

  • Simon Johanson

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The studio at the rear of the Red Hill workers’ cottage has separate street access that opens onto the garden.

Brisbane home office clocks on to win architecture prize

In a sign of changing work-life dynamics, a Red Hill home-office renovation has won a national design award.

  • Liz Hobday
Why work from the office, when you could work from a deck chair in the sunshine?

Getting bothered by co-workers is another reason for more WFH

Being interrupted at work to perform pointless or unrelated tasks causes stress and can hurt productivity, Queensland research has found.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Australia Post’s Fishermans Bend site sold to City of Port Phillip last year.

Dexus takes a haircut, sells Fishermans Bend site for half listing price

Planning complications shred the value of Dexus’ Fishermans Bend site. It originally listed for $50-$60 million and has now sold for $30.07 million.

  • Nicole Lindsay
The embodied carbon-neutral office tower 51 Flinders Lane.

Offices of the future: carbon neutral towers under construction

A major shift in the type of office towers being built for future workers is underway, as developers and tenants opt for carbon neutral buildings.

  • Simon Johanson
Renders of law firm Holding Redlich’s $12million rebuild of its offices across levels 65-67, 25 Martin Place (formerly MLC Centre), Sydney

Corner office makes a comeback as city firm ditches hot desking

A national law firm has ditched the decade-long trend to open-plan offices that swept through the country’s premium towers, bringing back individual offices.

  • Carolyn Cummins
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Man sneezing.

Ventilation critical to combat spread of COVID

Australia urgently needs a national taskforce to elevate ventilation and air quality management to the equivalent of vaccination.

  • Ted Baillieu
Composite - Ariauna Sanis, 22, worked from home for over a year and is now two days in the office. She found it really challenging working from home and is happy to be back in the office and would prefer to be there more days. 11th June 2021. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SHKate Lynch, 51, has senior roles in the pharmaceutical industry. She has worked from home on and off for years and now because of COVID-19. When the kids were younger, she found her social connection in the local community, through the kids schools and sporting clubs, but with three out of four of her kids out of home, she was looking forward to returning to the workplace.

The generation most keen on a return to the office – and why it may not be full time

The research found attitudes have shifted since the start of the pandemic, when nine out of 10 Australians were happy about the shift to remote work and 78 per cent believed it would be the new normal.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
NAB House, the 29-level Sydney office tower, has a five-star NABERS energy rating.

NAB directs staff back to office after months of remote working

National Australia Bank is telling staff outside Victoria it's time to start returning to the office after months of working from home because of COVID-19 restrictions.

  • Charlotte Grieve
Counters and wristbands were surprising items that sold well during the pandemic in addition to home office equipment.

What Australians bought to ride out the pandemic in their home office

Officeworks national merchandise manager Jim Berndelis said the usual suspects such as furniture and technology sold in huge numbers but a few other lines took him by surprise.

  • Hamish Hastie

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