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While Intel is busy laying off thousands of employees some of its most experienced CPU architects, with a combined 80+ years at the firm, have left to form a RISC-V [...]

Like a forgotten New Year's resolution, many plans to develop and sustain employee training fall by the wayside once business heats up each spring. You or a trusted manager can [...]

Issues are presented concerning the personnel management techniques used by Mackey Mitchell Associates and RTKL to retain staff. The difficulties faced by architectural practices in attracting and retaining staff are discussed.

Business is growing at Niles Bolton Associates, and director of finance Pat Neeley says the Atlanta-based architecture firm has increased its staff by 15% to 20% from last year. Still, [...]

While some of the best-known firms do not pay interns at all, other firms engage in less obvious forms of exploitation, much of which is illegal and all of which [...]

ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS Ranked by total number of local staff as of April 30, 2005 Total number of local staff: * 2005 Rank Firm * 2004 (last Address Telephone * % [...]

A total of 20 directors and principals have quit the troubled practice in recent months Will Hurst RMJM is suffering an exodus of senior staff with a total of at [...]

With no signs that the recession's bite is about to significantly ease off, Anna Winston and David Rogers look at the effect of redundancy on architects who have lost their [...]

Scrapping BSF to hit at least 1,500 in the profession David Rogers & Elizabeth Hopkirk The number of architects hit by the government's decision to scrap the Building Schools for [...]

Contrary to our story on page 2 last week, there is no current threat of redundancies at Nightingale Associates following its sale to Canadian firm, IBI Group. BD would like [...]

Archial is looking at renewing its acquisition of other practices this year and has confirmed it is in advanced discussions with a number of potential firms. Speaking this week, chief [...]

`WE COMBINED OUR INTEREST IN ARCHITECTURE WITH OUR INTEREST IN GOING FAST' Practice: Hayward Smart Architects Location: Tysoe, Warwickshire Size: Three people We are a small practice and we share [...]

A London architect is offering short-term staff an hourly rate of just #5.71 - below the minimum wage of #5.80. Parritt Leng advertised for part II and part III architects [...]

HOK is embarking on another round of job cuts and admits 10% of its employees in London face the axe. Shocked staff were told this week that the world's fourth-largest [...]

Anna Winston A campaign to prevent the listing of the Central Milton Keynes shopping centre has prompted an angry reaction from the 1970s building's original architects. English Heritage has recommended [...]

Grimshaw has announced plans to hire more architects after bucking the recession by increasing the number of staff on its payroll by 30% in the past 18 months. The firm's [...]

Atkins has made its first appointment as part of its plan to recruit talent from design-led practices by poaching a partner from Foster & Partners for its China operations. The [...]

The number of architects on the dole has fallen by 10% in a single month, new figures show today. According to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, [...]

Some of the big commercial firms are waving chequebooks at what they call 'design-led' architects, which suggests how far they have drifted away from architecture to other more lucrative ways [...]

PAUL MORRELL The downturn is shaking up the natural order to architecture's benefit The revolving doors are spinning as high-profile figures depart from established architectural practices to start up elsewhere. [...]

The chief executive of Archial has admitted more jobs could go at the company in order to save the architectural giant #2 million. Following a trading update last week, Chris [...]

The number of practices expecting to make redundancies over the next three months has risen by 11% since January, according to the latest results of the RIBA's Future Trends Survey. [...]

Practice starts redundancy process the day after it highlights its profitability to staff Will Hurst Foster & Partners has announced plans to make around a quarter of its workforce redundant [...]

Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the practice run by Rem Koolhaas, has laid off a sixth of its 300-strong workforce, it emerged this week. The losses are mainly from its Rotterdam [...]

Vikki Miller Make Architects has slashed the number of people working at the practice from 130 to 100, and has closed its Edinburgh office in a bid to survive the [...]

Norman Foster has vowed that a recession will not force Fosters & Partners to cut any of its 1,300 staff, despite the wave of UK job losses. Responding to a [...]

`We have food from the region made by people in the office, music, and a few beers' Practice: Healey Associates Location: Leeds Size: Eight people Healey Associates does not let [...]

SMC managing director Chris Littlemore has painted a rosy future for the huge listed practice, but vowed to continue its ongoing cost- cutting and rationalisation drive amid new contract negotiations [...]

Design for London has appointed a team to draw up the mayor's housing design guide, which is intended for use by boroughs and other public bodies to raise standards. Following [...]

Arb claims its growing profile has led to it receiving more complaints from members of the public, and is the main reason its workload has increased. Really? The only possible [...]

`YOU'VE GOT TO TRUDGE THROUGH THE SNOW - EVERY FOOTSTEP TAKES IT OUT OF YOU' Practice: Nicoll Russell Studios Location: Dundee Size: 40 people We did a winter hill walk [...]

`IT IS A REAL TALKING POINT - WE OFTEN TAKE CLIENTS FOR A GAME' Practice Aedas Location Bristol Size 40 We moved into a more central office location about a [...]

`GOLF TOURNAMENTS ARE USUALLY BETWEEN OURSELVES BUT THEY CAN GET QUITE COMPETITIVE' Practice: Paul Davis & Partners Location: Chelsea Size: 80 people I am married to a professional golfer so [...]

`THE PING-PONG TROPHY IS THE FOCUS OF AN INTENSE BATTLE EVERY LUNCHTIME' Practice: Collective Architecture Location: Glasgow Size: 18 people We have a table tennis table in the middle of [...]

`WE HAVE A BEGINNERS' YOGA CLASS IN ONE OF THE OFFICE MEETING ROOMS' Practice: Davy Smith Architects Location: Hoxton, London Size: 45 people We started running a Monday evening yoga [...]

`THE STAFF VOTED FOR A TRIP TO ISTANBUL' Practice Buckley Gray Yeoman Location Shoreditch, London Size 22 people Each year we go abroad on a staff trip which is an [...]