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Let's Talk FacilitiesDesigning Workplace Strategy with Dr Agustin ChevezIn this episode of Let’s Talk Facilities, Aaron Kelly and Sammy Gilham are joined by Agustin Chevez, architect and workplace strategist, for a deep dive into the evolving role of facility managers in workplace design and how workplaces can adapt to the changing rhythms of work. If you’re passionate about creating spaces that balance performance, purpose, and people, this episode offers insights you won’t want to miss! -------------Let's Talk Facilities is a podcast from the team at Premrest, Australia's go-to for floor care. Cleaning and installing commerci...
2025-10-0754 min
WhyWork PodcastS07 E02: Workplace incentives to combat the return-to-office ball-&-chainSeason 07 Episode 02: Workplace incentives to combat the return-to-office ball-&-chainThe WhyWork crew, Alan, Trajce, and Sara, revel in entertaining stories about novel workplace incentives to motivate staff to return to the office. Thanks to Dr Agustin Chevez for sharing the story about cosmetic Botox booths as a workplace return-to-the-office incentive. Alan cautions, “Take care not to make your workplace incentive look like a contractual agreement.”Sara shares her angst about the common phenomenon of workplace mediocrity versus innovation. “If you’re free from workplace innovation fatigue,” says Trajce, “call Sara.” She discusses more on Dr. Chevez’s w...
2025-01-2729 min
Peripheral ThinkingWhat a 1,000km trek can teach us about the workplaceExchanging ideas too early and too often hinders innovation, but promoting absurdity in the workplace can lead to new and creative solutions. The workplace shouldn’t simply be a task-focused environment, but a place to nurture our human traits, like our capacity for absurdity.Agustin Chevez is a workplace architect and researcher who focuses on studying work and the environments that support it. His book, The Pilgrim's Guide to the Workplace, **explores the idea of creating diversity of ideas through isolation and the importance of nurturing human traits in the workplace. He believes that workplaces should promote abs...
2024-01-1647 min
The Company Road PodcastE23 Dr. Agustin Chevez - Boredom makes brilliance: The surprising catalyst for workplace creativitySend us a text“It's easier to develop a business plan to literally sell shit than it is to develop a framework to implement new ideas, like a scientist.”Dr. Agustin ChevezIn this episode, you’ll hear about:Rethinking workplace design: Top strategies and recommendations for shifting workplaces to increase productivity, employee engagement and loyalty & how the perception of workplaces is evolvingAI and the future of work: How AI will impact work, for good and for bad, in the coming years & how you can be best prepared within your roleEf...
2023-12-201h 00
Work Life by DesignThe Pilgrim's Guide to the Workplace with Dr Agustin ChevezIs the workplace really just a 'task' place? This is one of the thought-provoking questions that today's guest poses, for us to ponder about our reality of work and the workplace. Dr Agustin Chevez is the author of The Pilgrim's Guide to the Workplace. It was after reading a book on the diversity of Iguana's in the Galapagos Islands, that Gus set off on a pilgrimage from Melbourne to Sydney, to explore the impact that isolation has on the diversity of our idea's. Fast forward a few year...
2023-09-1151 min
The Deep DiveEpisode 146: A Pilgrim’s Journey w/ Dr. Agustin ChevezPhilip spends time with Dr. Agustin Chevez, author of The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace. In their discussion they focus on Gus’s pilgrimage through Australia, the power of movement and walking as a meditation and what he learned about life and work along his journey.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop:
Wayne Shorter
Gus’s Drop:
The Most Human Human – Brian Christian Special Guest: Dr. Agustin Chevez.
2023-04-2054 min
The ForumHow we work: Redesigning the officeThe pandemic has made us all rethink how we work. Where once millions of people used to travel into work in tall glass buildings in big cities every day, now our idea of the office has come to include the kitchen table or maybe even a coffee shop. Yet despite the temptation to shift permanently to remote working, many organisations say the events of the past few years have actually underlined the importance of offices as spaces that connect people. So what are offices for? We are delving back into the history of the modern office to learn how...
2023-02-0239 min
Steelcase TalksRediseñando el Diseño- Agustin ChevezEn este episodio tenemos como invitado a Agustin Chevez Arquitecto, Investigador, Autor y Conferencista, en una misión de ayudar a las organizaciones a enfrentar los desafíos actuales en la intersección de Personas, Espacio y Tecnología.Agustin ha colaborado en firmas lideres en diseño en Australia desarrollando estrategias y diseminando conocimientos de diseño de lugares de trabajo alrededor del mundo. Su trabajo ha sido presentado en varios foros internacionales y en una variedad de publicaciones tanto académicas como de la industria tales como The conversation, Fast Company, Work Design Magazine, Artichok...
2022-12-2909 min
On Meaningful WorkOn Meaningful Work #22: Dr. Agustin ChevezHello All and welcome to another episode of the On Meaningful Work podcast.
This one is a little bit different. Firstly its a live recording. Secondly the format is a little different. Rather than my usual formula of tracing a person's journey and trying to distil how they came to find meaning and purpose in the work they do, this interview traces a literal journey. Dr. Chevez wanted to think about the future of work and the likely environments that will support our working lives without any distraction..so he walked from Melbourne to Sydney. It...
2022-11-171h 00
Centaur Stage(re)Visiting Assumptions about the Workplace with Agustin ChevezDr. Agustin Chevez, an Architect and Academic, walked in isolation for 42 days from Melbourne to Sydney expecting to incubate a unique idea about workplace design. Over a million steps later, his pilgrimage delivered unique insights which he refers to as Signposts – named for their promise to point to a better place of work for both organisations and the people who inhabit them. In his #CosmicConference session on Monday, October 17, at 9:30 AM (GMT +4), Agustin took us on a journey that revisits our assumptions about the way we use space to host the ever-evolving notion of work – an expedition leading not...
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Centaur StageThe Impact of Workspaces on CollaborationLast year, during the ‘Future of Work Conference’, we hosted a panel titled, ‘Is the office dead?’ We were curious if it was time for the office to be reborn. This year, we wanted to continue this conversation and explored whether COVID-19, unlike the Internet, was able to drastically change the layout of our workspaces. Marilyn Zakhour, CEO and Founder of Cosmic Centaurs, was joined by 2 guests who shared their insights on the workspaces of the future, particularly those in what we refer to at Cosmic Centaurs as omnichannel organizations.
2021-07-0748 min
BrolosophyDr. Agustin Chevez On Workplace Architecture, Isolation & Basic NeedsDr. Agustin Chavez is a specialist in Workplace Architecture and TEDx speaker. He possesses a passion to understand the new relationships between people, space, and technology and how it comes together in our present time. Agustin starts with giving us his background and Doc asks him what workplace architecture is. He goes on to talk about the benefits from what he has learned in his field, talks about open workspaces vs. cubicles, then touches on the concept of isolation as a positive situation. Doc gives his two cents on the matter then the two finish...
2019-03-0100 min
Business BriefingBusiness Briefing: a better way to design an officeBetter office design is not just about shaping space around tasks we do. www.shutterstock.comA lot of Australian building codes don’t actually refer to the maximum number of people a building should fit. That’s what researcher Agustin Chevez found when he started to delve into how a better office might look.
As the type of work we do changes, it becomes less about the tasks you do and more about your reactions to and relations with those you work with, Chevez says.
So you need to be able to tell how many...
2016-08-1710 min