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In preparation for Earth Day, a day aimed to demonstrate support for environmental protection, consider implementing a few (or all!) of these sustainable tips in your office. With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd, there’s no better time to start thinking about how you can help make your office a more eco-friendly place to work

Rapt Studio gives PayPal‘s West Village offices a presence that incorporates their brand story and emphasizes collaboration and flexibility. PayPal has grown its brand and New York City presence over the last several years, and Rapt Studio worked with them to expand their West Village presence by emphasizing the company’s stories of consumer partnerships

When technology incubator NextCorps (formerly High Tech Rochester) decided to relocate from the suburb of Henrietta, the natural fit was the spacious 6th floor of the former Sibley’s department store in downtown Rochester. At the center of Rochester’s ongoing revitalization, The Sibley Building’s transformation into Sibley Square — a 1 million-square-foot, mixed-use city hub, whose adaptive reuse is also spearheaded by TAT — offered a unique opportunity that mirrored NextCorps’ own vision of being a “catalyst for entrepreneurship and innovation-based economic development”

In 2018, Leesman independently assessed the workplace experience of 151,770 employees across 971 workplaces worldwide, further bolstering what was already the largest available body of comparative data on workplace effectiveness. With workplace commentators now acknowledging that employee experience provides the stepping stones to employee engagement, it is no surprise to see these 13 organizations remaining well clear of the global average workplaces on areas such as employee pride and the workplace being an enjoyable place to be. The strategies behind the world’s best workplace differ among regions, sector and of course employee functions, but there are similarities in what these organizations are doing and how they approach the balancing act of ‘work’ not only being a thing you do, but also a place you actually want to be. Leesman’s latest research reveals that the workplaces with the best employee experience scores in the world (Leesman+ spaces) vary considerably in both size and density.