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    Creating Company Culture in Covid-19
    Alice Devine
    • Jan 5, 2021
    • 4 min

    Creating Company Culture in Covid-19

    Ergonomic home office evaluations, flexible schedules, and fun --- progressive companies continue to build culture in remote settings Company culture, sometimes apparent and other times intangible, is a cornerstone of the workplace. According to the Harvard Business Review, culture resides in “shared behaviors, values, and assumptions and is most commonly experienced through the norms and expectations of a group — that is, the unwritten rules.” Remote work, which has become w
    Does This Color Make My Office Building Look Fat?
    Alice Devine
    • Oct 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    Does This Color Make My Office Building Look Fat?

    Color theory—the study behind the shades and tones—informs our perceptions of the environment. Boston’s Prudential Center shouts at me, across busy Boylston Street. How? With its bright orange building color, encased and capped in glass, that commands attention. Of course, knowing that color communicates is no revelation. Heck, honeybees have made their living off it for millions of years. Understanding the human emotional and cultural responses to color, however, and how tho