Energy becomes inconsistent. Decisions feel heavier. And the question is no longer “How do I grow?” but something far more personal:

“Why doesn’t this feel the way I thought it would?”

For Mari Oderzhakhivska, this question did not appear as a theory.

It appeared as a breaking point and became the foundation for one of the most innovative approaches to leadership and burnout recovery available today.

The Invisible Cost of High Performance and Leadership Burnout

Mari Oderzhakhivska is a visionary mentor for high-achieving entrepreneurs with more than 17 years of experience in global luxury brand marketing. Her career spans Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and LVMH. Before creating her method, Mari experienced something many entrepreneurs normalize but rarely question: a constant state of activation that is the hidden driver of leadership burnout.

“I realized that as entrepreneurs, we live almost permanently in a sympathetic nervous system state,” she explains. This state drives execution, but it comes at a significant cost to work life balance.

“Feelings and emotions become numb. You start disconnecting from the people you love. Everything in life becomes a business plan with KPIs where there is no aliveness or vitality at all.”

That recognition became her turning point. “I decided: enough of this. I will find a way, not just for myself, but for all my fellow entrepreneurs.”

The Science Behind Entrepreneurial Burnout

What Mari experienced has a scientific explanation, one that helps clarify why burnout affects high-performance leaders so disproportionately.

When the sympathetic nervous system dominates as it does during sustained periods of high achievement, several things happen simultaneously:

• Access to deeper emotions decreases
• The body remains in a state of chronic tension
• Perception narrows to immediate threats and tasks
• The parasympathetic system, responsible for recovery, connection, and genuine feeling becomes progressively less accessible

The cumulative result is not just physical exhaustion. It is a kind of emotional disconnection that affects relationships, decision quality, and the experience of life itself.

“You can be successful,” Mari says, “and at the same time feel nothing.”

This is not a personal failure. It is a physiological consequence of sustained high-performance without the tools to regulate the nervous system in real time.

Why Traditional Burnout Recovery Was Not the Answer

Like many leaders navigating the early signs of burnout, Mari explored traditional solutions like therapy, long-form spiritual practices, retreats.

“They work,” she says. “But they require you to slow down, step out, disconnect.”

For her, that was not a viable path.

“I didn’t want to leave my life to feel it,” she explains. “I needed to stay in the speed but experience it differently.”

This distinction is critical. The conventional approach to burnout recovery asks leaders to choose between performance and presence. Mari refused that choice and built a system that makes both possible simultaneously.

Re:engineering State: Solving Burnout Without Slowing Down

Instead of choosing between performance and presence, Mari developed Re:engineering State, a method designed to quickly shift internal states and regulate the psycho-emotional system in real time, without stepping out of the professional demands of high-level leadership.

“At some point, I understood: it’s not about slowing down,” she says. “It’s about being able to switch states without losing momentum.”

The method draws on 15 years of study with leading teachers, scientists, and practitioners in neuroscience, nervous system regulation, awakening brain research, mental health, and human performance. It is not theory. It is the distillation of lived experience combined with rigorous scientific grounding.

The Science of State: What Re:engineering State Is Built On

At the core of Mari’s approach is a deceptively simple but profound insight:

Your nervous system defines your access.

When locked in sympathetic activation, a leader can act but cannot fully feel. They can perform but cannot deeply connect. They can achieve but cannot truly experience the results of that achievement.

When parasympathetic regulation is restored, even briefly, something different becomes available:

• Perception expands
• Emotional range returns
• Clarity becomes natural rather than forced
• Relationships deepen
• Energy becomes regenerative rather than depleting

State is not just how you feel in a given moment. It determines what you have access to, cognitively, emotionally, and relationally.

Re:engineering State as a Leadership Tool

The method Mari developed is specifically designed for high-performing individuals who cannot and do not want to step out of the game.

It integrates nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, cognitive reframing, and real-time state switching into a practical framework that can be applied during the normal demands of an active leadership life.

The goal is not relaxation. It is precision.

The ability to shift within minutes from pressure to clarity, from reaction to creation, from control to connection.

For entrepreneurs managing the relentless demands of building a business while maintaining personal relationships and avoiding the deeper forms of burnout that end careers and damage health, this kind of precision is not a luxury. It is a competitive and personal necessity.

A New Kind of Leadership Capacity

At the highest levels of achievement, the challenge is no longer effort. Effort is available in abundance. The real constraint is capacity.

The capacity to hold complexity without collapsing under it. To make decisions without internal noise distorting judgment. To stay connected to the people who matter while moving at the pace the business demands. To experience life fully, emotionally, presently while building at scale.

This is what Re:engineering State is designed to unlock. Not as a wellness practice separate from leadership, but as a core leadership capability that determines the quality of everything else.

The leadership qualities that define great leaders in 2026, emotional intelligence, resilience, authentic communication, the ability to build genuine trust, all depend on the nervous system access that Re:engineering State is designed to restore and maintain.

Final Thoughts

Mari Oderzhakhivska did not create her method from theory. She created it from necessity from the recognition that success without access to life itself is incomplete.

Today, she works with entrepreneurs from around the world, helping them develop the internal infrastructure that high performance actually requires: not just strategy and execution, but the capacity to be present, connected, and alive in the personal brand they are building.

The future of leadership, Mari believes, is not about doing more.

It is about being able to move fast and feel everything that matters along the way. To maintain intimate connection with the people who matter. To share moments, celebrate milestones, and build a life that is not just successful but genuinely worth living.

You do not need to choose between speed and presence.

You need a system that allows both.

Connect With Mari Oderzhakhivska:

• Instagram: instagram.com/oderzhakhivska
• Mentorship: morethanm.com/mentorship

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Most business owners discover this truth too late. They spend months working 80-hour weeks and missing family moments. Eventually, they face a creeping exhaustion that no amount of coffee can fix. They built the business they dreamed of, but they forgot to build the life that was supposed to come with it.

In my experience working alongside entrepreneurs and business builders, the ones who sustain high performance over years, not just months, are not the ones who work the hardest. They are the ones who figured out how to protect their energy, set boundaries that actually hold, and build businesses that run without requiring their constant presence.

This guide is for every entrepreneur who knows they need to find better balance but has not figured out how to do it without feeling like they are falling behind. The strategies here are practical, honest, and built for the reality of running a business in 2026, not a corporate job with fixed hours and a clear off switch.

Why Work Life Balance Is Harder for Entrepreneurs Than Anyone Else

Before diving into solutions it is worth acknowledging something that most productivity guides skip over entirely: work life balance is genuinely harder for entrepreneurs than it is for employees, and the reasons matter.

Your business lives in your head 24 hours a day. While an employee can clock out, an entrepreneur carries the business everywhere. You might face a strategy question at 11 PM or a client problem during dinner. Consequently, the mental load of ownership rarely respects office hours.

Furthermore, there is always more you could be doing. Since the to-do list never ends, the decision to stop working often feels like a choice to fall behind.

There is always more you could be doing. The to-do list of a business owner never ends. There is always another email to send, another system to improve, another opportunity to pursue. The ceiling on productive work is infinite, which means the decision to stop working always feels like a choice to fall behind.

Your identity and your business are deeply intertwined. For many entrepreneurs, the business is not just what they do, it is who they are. This makes disengaging feel like losing yourself rather than simply logging off, and it makes burnout particularly difficult to recognize until it is severe.

The culture celebrates overwork. The entrepreneurship community has historically glorified hustle culture, the founder who sleeps four hours, the CEO who has not taken a vacation in three years, the startup team that treats exhaustion as a badge of honor. This cultural norm makes it harder to prioritize balance without feeling like you are not serious about your success.

Understanding these dynamics does not make balance easier automatically, but it does make the challenge clearer, and clarity is where real solutions begin.

The Real Cost of Ignoring Work Life Balance

The entrepreneurship conversation tends to focus on the risks of not working hard enough. The risks of working too hard rarely get the same attention, which is a significant blind spot.

Burnout does not just hurt you, it hurts your business. When you are operating on depleted energy, your decision-making deteriorates, your creativity suffers, your relationships with clients and team members become strained, and your ability to see strategic opportunities clearly diminishes. The founder who is burning out is not operating at full capacity, and that has direct business consequences.

Health problems compound over time. Chronic stress, sleep deprivation, and physical neglect do not stay contained to your work life. They affect your long-term health in ways that eventually become impossible to ignore, and that force a much harder reset than a deliberate, proactive approach to balance would have required.

Relationships suffer in ways that are hard to repair. Women entrepreneurs in particular carry a disproportionate share of this burden, managing business demands alongside family and personal responsibilities simultaneously.The spouse who spent years watching you prioritize the business over the family, the children who grew up with a parent who was physically present but mentally absent, the friendships that quietly dissolved because there was never time, these are real costs that no business success can fully compensate for.

The business becomes dependent on your heroics. When you operate without boundaries, the business adapts to your constant availability. Systems do not get built because you are always there to fill the gaps. Delegation does not happen because it seems faster to do things yourself. The result is a business that cannot function without you — which is neither scalable nor sustainable.

7 Practical Work Life Balance Strategies for Entrepreneurs in 2026

1. Define What Work Life Balance Actually Means for You

The first mistake most entrepreneurs make when pursuing work life balance is trying to achieve someone else’s version of it. Balance does not mean equal time for work and personal life. It means intentional allocation of your time and energy in a way that aligns with your values and sustains your performance over the long term.

For some entrepreneurs that means strict work hours and protected weekends. For others it means flexible schedules that allow intense work periods followed by genuine recovery time. For others still it means integrating work and life rather than separating them, working from home, involving family in the business, and treating the boundaries between professional and personal as fluid rather than fixed.

Spend thirty minutes defining what balance would actually look like for you specifically, not for a generic entrepreneur, not for the version of yourself you think you should be. What would your ideal week look like if you were operating sustainably? Start there.

2. Protect Your Most Important Personal Commitments Like Business Meetings

The most effective thing you can do to improve work life balance immediately costs nothing and takes five minutes: put your personal commitments in your calendar and treat them with the same seriousness as your most important business meetings.

Your child’s school event, your weekly exercise, your date night, your monthly dinner with friends — these go in the calendar first, before work appointments fill the space. When something comes up that conflicts, you decline or reschedule the work commitment rather than automatically sacrificing the personal one.

This sounds simple because it is simple. It is also uncommonly practiced, which is why most entrepreneurs consistently sacrifice personal commitments to work demands and then wonder why their relationships and health have suffered.

3. Use Automation to Support Work Life Integration

The most sustainable form of work life balance for entrepreneurs is not about managing your time better. It is about building a business that does not require your constant presence to function.

Every task you do repeatedly is a system waiting to be built. In 2026 agentic AI tools are making it faster and cheaper than ever to automate repetitive business tasks, freeing founders to focus on the work only they can do.Every decision that requires your input is a process waiting to be documented and delegated. Every client communication that depends on you personally is a template waiting to be created.

The entrepreneurs with the best work life balance are not the ones with the most discipline about logging off. They are the ones who have built businesses that can operate without their heroics — and who then have the freedom to choose how to spend their time rather than having it claimed by an endless stream of demands.

4. Create a Clear End to Your Workday

One of the most underrated work life balance tools is a deliberate end-of-workday ritual. Without a clear signal that the workday is over, entrepreneurs tend to drift into evening work — checking emails at dinner, thinking through strategy at bedtime, and never fully disengaging from the business.

A simple shutdown ritual, reviewing your task list, writing tomorrow’s priorities, closing your laptop, and doing something that signals the transition to personal time, creates a clear psychological boundary between work mode and personal mode. It does not need to be elaborate. It needs to be consistent.

5. Prioritize Sleep as a Balance Strategy

Sleep deprivation is one of the most common and most damaging forms of self-sabotage among entrepreneurs. The research on this is unambiguous, insufficient sleep impairs judgment, reduces creativity, elevates stress responses, and accelerates burnout.

The entrepreneur who consistently sleeps seven to eight hours and protects that sleep ruthlessly will outperform the one who regularly operates on five or six hours, not despite sleeping more, but because of it. Treating sleep as a productivity tool rather than a luxury changes the relationship with it entirely.

6. Schedule Recovery Time the Same Way You Schedule Work

High-performance entrepreneurs understand something that most productivity culture misses entirely: recovery is not the absence of work. It is a productive activity that makes all other work better.

Just as elite athletes build recovery into their training schedules, because they understand that adaptation happens during rest, not during exertion, entrepreneurs benefit from deliberately scheduling recovery time rather than hoping it happens in the gaps.

This means taking actual vacations where you disconnect. It means building weekends that genuinely restore rather than just providing a slower pace of work. It means recognizing that the mental space created by genuine recovery is where your best ideas, clearest thinking, and most creative problem-solving actually happen.

7. Get Visible, Stop Carrying Everything Alone

One of the most overlooked contributors to entrepreneur burnout is isolation. Building a business is a uniquely demanding experience that most people in your life do not fully understand and carrying that weight alone is exhausting in ways that go beyond the practical demands of the work itself.

Community matters. Mentorship matters. Finding people who understand the specific challenges of entrepreneurship, who you can speak to honestly about what you are experiencing  matters more than most entrepreneurs admit.

Whether it is a peer group of fellow founders,  business spotlight in the right publication
puts your story in front of thousands of people who need to hear it, without requiring you to attend another networking event, a business mentor, a therapist who works with entrepreneurs, or simply a trusted friend who will listen without judgment, investing in the relationships that sustain you through the hard parts of building a business is not a soft priority. Seeking media coverage is one of the most effective ways to build credibility and expand your network at the same time. It is a strategic one.

Recognizing Founder Burnout and Loss of Balance

Work life balance strategies are most effective when implemented proactively before burnout takes hold. Knowing the early warning signs allows you to course-correct while the correction is still manageable.

Early warning signs of entrepreneur burnout:

• Energy loss: Work that once energized you now feels like an obligation.

• Brain fog: You have difficulty making simple decisions.

• Cynicism: You feel increasingly negative about your industry or clients.

• Physical health: You experience persistent fatigue or sleep disruption.

• Withdrawal: You begin to pull away from important relationships.

If you recognize several of these signs, the answer is not to push harder. It is to pause, assess honestly, and make deliberate changes before the situation becomes a crisis.

Final Thoughts

Work life balance for entrepreneurs is not about working less. It is about working in a way that is sustainable, intentional, and aligned with the life you are actually trying to build.

The business you are building should make your life better, not consume it. Building your personal brand while running your business creates opportunities that come to you rather than requiring you to chase them.The clients you serve, the revenue you generate, and the impact you create are all more valuable when they come from a founder who is operating at full capacity rather than running on empty.

Protect your energy. Build your systems. Schedule your recovery. And remember that the most important asset in your business is not your product, your brand, or your clients, it is you.

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Gary Clark, director of SIA Academy, says: “People think a career has to be serious to be meaningful. But you can be standing on a snowy mountain, laughing with strangers you just taught to ski, and realise, this matters.”

Maybe that’s why gap years have exploded in popularity. Not just for teenagers trying to “find themselves,” but for people of all ages hitting pause, rethinking what life could look like. You step outside the routine, and suddenly, the path you thought was straight starts branching in every direction.

With more people now wanting work that supports their mental and physical wellbeing, here’s six career paths that don’t just pay the bills—they give you something back.

Ski instructor

It’s more than a job; it’s your passion for skiing turned into a career that takes you across the globe. It all starts with a ski instructor course – you spend your days on the slopes, meeting new people, working in some of the world’s most stunning places—like Canada or Japan, where ski seasons bring deep powder and buzzing resort life. 

Gary Clark, director of SIA Academy, puts it simply: “You’re not stuck at a desk. You’re out there, experiencing the elements, watching students go from wobbly first-timers to confident skiers. That’s rewarding.”

Plus, ski instructing opens doors. One season in Canada can lead to another in Japan, then maybe Austria. It’s a career built on adventure, and it’s good for both the mind and body.

Outdoor educator

If you loved camp as a kid, this might be your thing. Outdoor educators lead hikes, run survival skills workshops, teach kids about conservation, and get people excited about nature. It’s about being outside, moving, and making an impact.

This job can take you anywhere—mountain ranges, forests, even remote islands. It’s meaningful, active, and keeps you connected to the world beyond four walls.

Conservation worker

If protecting the environment is high on your list, conservation work could be worth looking into. It’s hands-on—planting trees, restoring wildlife habitats, working on sustainable projects. It can be physically demanding, but that’s the point. It gets you moving, thinking, and working towards something bigger.

Many conservation projects are in breathtaking locations, like Canada’s national parks, Japan’s rewilding projects, or marine conservation work along Australia’s coast. 

Wellness retreat guide

Imagine a mountain lodge or a coastal hideaway where the only agenda is to feel better. Wellness retreat guides create those escapes. They lead meditation sessions, yoga classes, and quiet walks that remind you to breathe.

The job isn’t about flashy lifestyles. It’s about simple moments—a shared smile, a quiet moment of reflection. “It’s similar to skiing,” Gary remarks. “There’s a focus, a clarity that comes when you let go of distractions.”

This role offers both an escape for others and a kind of reset for you.

Adventure guide

Some people want their job to feel like an expedition. Kayaking, rock climbing, backcountry skiing—adventure guides lead people right to the edge of their comfort zones, then show them they can go further.

Clark says: “Guides are in high demand in places, where backcountry skiing, rafting, and mountain treks draw adventurers from all over. The work can be seasonal, but that’s part of the appeal. You follow the seasons, moving between locations, never stuck in the same routine.”

Eco-tourism operator

Tourism gets a bad rap for its environmental impact. Eco-tourism flips that script. It’s about travel that doesn’t trash the planet—running sustainable lodges, leading wildlife tours, working with local communities.

“It’s the best of both worlds,” says Clark. “You’re meeting travellers, sharing beautiful places, and making sure they stay protected for the future.”

It’s a career that lets you be part of the travel industry without the baggage. You get the buzz of meeting new people, the peace of nature, and the satisfaction of knowing you’re doing it right.

Work doesn’t have to be something you just get through. It can support your wellbeing, keep you active, and actually make you happy. If a gap year gave you a taste of something different—something freer, healthier—maybe that’s the sign to find a career that gives you that feeling every day.

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When we’ve had long days at work, it makes sense to use this time to disconnect from the working day and not take the stress of the day home with us. This means it’s important to make sure your commute is taking care of your mental health and helping you to create that separation.

 Ben Mercer of Leisure Lakes Bikes has identified a few ways to make sure your commute is doing everything you need to prepare for a workday or unwind after one.

 Driving and its alternatives
Another Statista survey asserted that the most common form of transport for commuting is driving, with 64% of journeys happening in an owned or household car. While it’s an efficient way to get to work, traffic jams and spending a long time in a car on your own can have a huge impact on your mental health.

 Ben Mercer suggests: “One option you could try is switching the method of travel you use to get to work. If you’re within a good distance from your workplace, you can try walking to work. Or even better, why not hop on a e bike and cycle in? Not only can it be refreshing to get out in the fresh air rather than being stuck in your car, but the exercise can help pump positive endorphins ahead of or after your working day.”

 However, driving might be the only suitable option to get to work, especially if it’s a tricky location to get to through other methods. If that’s the case, why not organise a carpool with your colleagues? Sharing the experience and socialising could help to improve mentality and outlook.

 Trying different routes
Not only could your commute improve by changing the method of travel you use, but it could benefit from trying out different routes. This doesn’t necessarily mean taking the fastest route to and from your workplace, as the longer travel time could help give you time to work through your thoughts before your working day starts and after it ends.

 The morning commute being longer does mean if you were to experiment with different ways of getting into work that you may need to get up earlier, but there are plenty of benefits to waking up earlier than you normally do.

 It can help to regulate your circadian rhythm, which helps both your sleeping pattern in the long-term as well as benefiting your mental health. You’ll also have more time to get a hearty breakfast and set yourself up for the day. And if you find yourself having to skip showers or brushing your teeth as you’re strapped for time, you’ll be able to look after yourself more.

 Soundtracking your journey
When you’re travelling, unless you’re joined in a carpool or around others on public transport, you often spend a lot of your time in silence or surrounded by the sounds of the road or your environment. That’s why stimulating your audial senses can help to improve both directions of your journey, both to and from your workplace.

 Ben Mercer is an advocate of music to soundtrack your journey; “Building a playlist for your drive, cycle, or walk means you can integrate your favourite artists and tracks that make you feel both comforted and energised. You could even create different playlists for your travel into your workplace and your journey home, with more energetic music for your morning to wake you up and slower tracks to help unwind and digest after your day.”

 Alternatively, if you’re more into spoken word, learning, or storytelling, there are plenty of options from soundtracks to audiobooks for you to enjoy. It also helps to provide an escapist option to help unwind and detach from thinking about work.

 Connect with others – don’t forget about your phone
How often do you find yourself thinking about the last time you spoke to friends, relatives, or loved ones? You might not have spoken to them in enough time that you may have missed updating them on significant moments in your life, or even just missed catching up with them.

 Texting is all well and good, but nothing beats a good old-fashioned phone call. Using your commute to get in touch with the voices you want to hear the most can help to strengthen or re-establish those connections. Plus, there’s no better feeling than knowing someone is thinking of you and wants to talk and catch up.

 Sources
https://www.statista.com/forecasts/997868/duration-of-daily-commute-in-the-uk

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/997849/most-common-modes-of-transportation-for-commuting-in-the-uk

https://www.nike.com/gb/a/benefits-of-waking-up-early

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Recent news has told us that 18% of the United States’ office space lies vacant, with 300 million square feet expected to be obsolete by 2030 as firms battle with the economic downturn and a rise in popularity of home working in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.

However, while office space may well be reduced as we move into the future, there will always be a place for it. Not every company can work remotely, and a lot of the new working days we see are a hybrid blend between office and home working.

Innovative office designs and a rethinking of the traditional office space have been seen across the world, with many businesses taking a different approach to the workday.

Collaboration
Collaboration and communication are key elements of businesses, and features that are important to remain in place wherever people are working.

Of course, where people are working remotely, technology has enabled us to keep in touch with colleagues across the businesses and even the globe, however, in the actual office spaces themselves, we’re seeing some different approaches to the regular traditional office.

Coworking spaces are something that allow collaboration between not just employees in your company, but also across businesses.

Elements of coworking spaces can be brought into the traditional office, with creative ways for teams to meet, including kitchen areas, break out spaces and even informal areas such as 8-ball tables and beanbags – all of these provide a way for people to meet each other, collaborate and if nothing else, get communication flowing across the business.

As businesses cut down on the spaces they need, coworking spaces may become a viable option for many. Across the globe there are some very quirky and unique coworking spaces, which bridge the gap between home and office working

. Lisbon’s Village Underground is a space which promotes collaboration and culture, and as well as workspaces includes a recording studio and a restaurant. Of course, different businesses have different requirements so what works for one may not work for all, but options like this highlight the changing attitudes to the workspace.

Work-Life Balance
A phrase all of us will have heard and tried to take heed of is the work-life balance, and this is something at the heart of many workplace changes we are seeing. As things have changed in the past few years, and many have worked from home, a full time return to the office for people that was expected hasn’t fully materialized.

Research from Knight Frank showed the expectation that “employees will work at least some of the week from home for the foreseeable future”, and just a third of businesses still pushing for a full-time return.

Balancing the work and free time of employees can be tricky, particularly when office visits are essential to the job. Clever workspaces have begun introducing more opportunities for downtime and screen breaks, as seen in Google’s Zurich space. Slides, cinema rooms and places to even have a dance are all part of the office, and elements of this can be implemented in offices for smaller companies too.

Having fun in the office can of course improve communication but above all the wellbeing of the workforce. As the workplace changes, work is not so much a place people go but a thing that they do, and that they do from anywhere. With this in mind, when employees need to go to the office, their welfare is important and employees that can have fun in the office are likely to be up to 20% more productive than those who aren’t.

A no-brainer then, to incorporate some interesting areas into an office where employees can take a break. Coupled with flexible options when available, providing a work-life balance while in the office too can result in happier, and in turn more focused and productive members of staff.

Remove the Office Feeling
One approach to the office space we have seen is to be clever with the design of the space. This can be simply making sure people have enough power sockets in which to plug in laptops, phones and printers. Aesthetics are important too, and by incorporating this into the design of the office from the get-go, a reputable supplier can ensure practical elements such as wiring and electrical enclosure boxes are considered as part of the overall build.

Removing the traditional office feeling though, can of course go much further than being practical with layouts and ensuring a flow of natural light. Bark, a company that create dog toys and treats, have a unique workspace which is designed for both humans and dogs to be side by side during the working day.

Using dog-friendly materials, the space allows employees to work at their will around the office, and has importantly been completed using cost-effective materials to show that this way of thinking can be commercially viable too. While naturally, this may be a step too far for many, the unique way of thinking again showcases how businesses have changed workspaces into something that works for them.

Sources

Half of big companies to cut office desk space as bosses give up on back to work push (msn.com)

Village Underground Lisboa – Um muro aberto para um novo movimento artístico e cultural (vulisboa.com)

Rethinking The Modern Workspace: Embracing Change With Purpose (forbes.com)

NBBJ designs Bark’s Ohio office for both humans and dogs (dezeen.com)

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