Doing the right thing

Workspace has been a champion of small and medium businesses since the 1980’s, continually providing homes to some of the capital’s most exciting and fast-growing SMEs.

Expert tips on how to keep your body and mind healthy despite pressure at work

We joined BYBI (which stands for By Beauty Insiders) at their sustainability summit as they picked the brains of environmental experts Hannah Pathak, Director of Forum for the Future, and Emily Sharples from South Pole. Here’s what they had to say.

Sustainability is a confusing word. With transparency and authenticity being seen as key to brand loyalty – it’s time businesses made sure that every element of their operations makes a positive impact.

Wellness is now part of the conversation in everyday life, yet when it comes to the workplace, many employers are still lagging behind. Here’s how to catch up...

1 in 7 of us in the UK are “neurodiverse”, but what does it mean to be neurodiverse and how can employers adjust the work environment to cater to this particular hidden disability? Journalist Helen Parton talks to the design experts and discovers how Workspace is driving positive change.

The pay-gap furore has lifted the lid on inequalities in the workplace. We speak to diversity experts to find out how and why companies should embed diversity into their DNA.

The fashion industry is the second biggest polluter after oil. Meet the pioneers weaving sustainability into the world of fashion

Corporate volunteering is a great way to foster a sense of purpose and collective pride among employees. But how do you motivate your staff to get involved? In celebration of Volunteers Week, 1-7 June, we’ve put together seven simple steps to get started.

We talk to Deepak Ravindran, Co-founder at OddBox – London’s first social enterprise, based at Parkhall Business Centre in West Dulwich, delivering wonky fruit and veg boxes to homes and offices across the capital.

Corporate social responsibility is no longer the clichéd buzzword it used to be. We take a look at a movement where sustainability isn’t a secondary concern but is central to business strategy. Workspace customers such as B Lab and Anthesis are at the cutting edge of “caring capitalism”.

Introducing XLP, a charity which creates positive futures for young people growing up in deprived inner-city estates.

10 Workspace volunteers build a community garden for the most sustainable building in London.

The latest Workspace Business Insights Dinner was bang on trend at The Pill Box in Bethnal Green. The theme was ‘wellness at work’ and the panel of guest speakers were truly outstanding, if we do say so ourselves.

Here at Workspace we work a little differently and we certainly strive to make our spaces somewhere people love to be in. We make sure to keep tackling the issue of work life balance, because we know how important it is to have good mental health as well as physical. We care about our environment and our people and we are always looking for new and exciting ways to do the right thing.

Mention the word “sustainability” to most small business owners and their eyes will probably glaze over. It’s a shame that the golden glow of all that is meant by the “S” word has been tarnished; that the exciting promise of a new way of doing business has been masked by the fear of something outside our remit, something unattainable that, for the small business owner struggling to survive, is completely outside his comfort zone.