Bringing cultural awareness to the surface. What’s your personal culture of work? A surprisingly novel question that led to the richest body of insights that we’ve seen over the years. And we found this by altering the way that we meet with participants. We gave them control of the agenda in a format that we… Continue reading How to form personal routines and why they matter
Have you ever noticed how often things are well designed these days? Think of the world of choices that are readily available where every item seems carefully made to fit into your life, one need at a time. This is what design wants to do for people, making use of the bigger picture to make… Continue reading Using the Five Human Factors Framework to make sense of the Dayshift
Most people are familiar with developing a fitness routine by investing in a gym membership, acquiring a fitness coach or simply buying a great pair of trainers. Working from home brings new demands for staying productive and it challenges us to make use of a new level of autonomy. This requires a new type of… Continue reading Constructing a personal work from home training routine
People are often aware that they habitually respond to the norms of others, and to the norms triggered by a place or an object such as a chair. When others appear busy around us it can feel natural to concentrate on work. How do we self-motivate, when our habits are without social references within the… Continue reading Transitioning our cognitive abilities
There might be office structures about meeting times, ways of interacting online and distributing tasks, but everything in between is up to the individual to develop and interpret on their own. In our Dayshift research we heard insights from respondents who are taking control of their work time in a way that suits them best. … Continue reading Working from home is almost entirely self-guided
In the office we fit into the way of working through interacting and gaining feedback from others. There’s an office culture to rely upon. If we don’t have a set rhythm and work at home culture, then we might often find ourselves waking up in the morning and hoping for random success. We’ve all been… Continue reading There are risks of getting lost when working at home
