Hermes doesn't buy Gucci!
Will coronavirus mean the death of the office?
Working from home may be a temporary answer to a very specific and serious problem, but ultimately things are inevitably a bit more complex.
Total Failure of Leadership Drags Office Furniture Stocks to the Basement
The cost of his administrations’ failure to deliver the most basic prerequisite of pandemic response, say,. widespread testing to track the disease’s spread is being bourn by many, including the employees and shareholders of our largest companies.
The Contract Furnishings Trade Shows of the Future
Tradeshows have long been at the heart of the manufacturer-dealer-specifier relationship in contract furnishings.
After 80 Years in the Mart, Herman Miller Calls it Quits
The death of desks, the truth about smart cities and a long list of things architects should know
You can’t judge an international marketplace by wandering around an exhibition of its products for a day or two.
Putting the Industry in Perspective
The Very Unsettling Near Term Future of the Office Furniture Industry
How technology and the very nature of work has conspired to upend the future of the workplace and everyone associated with it.
Review: Living with Vitra’s Pacific Chair, Jony Ive’s choice for Apple Park
For Apple Park, the Pacific feels almost inevitable. It’s hard to imagine an office chair any more complimentary to the campus’ aesthetics and sensibilities. Putting one in your own office probably won’t help you invent the next iPhone, but it is a beacon of good taste.
After the Millennium
Surely, Baby Boomers and Millennials share more than biology and morphology. Or, is the mindset of the Millennial generation unlike any other in history? Do these young men and women have different attitudes and aptitudes, ideals and anxieties?
KI's Dick Resch: Designing a Solution to our Nation's Productivity Crisis
The productivity crisis has real, dollars-and-cents consequences. Gallup reports that 16 percent of workers are actively disengaged. They're "miserable" and "destroy what the most engaged employees build." The tab for that behavior is outrageous -- between $483 billion and $605 billion a year in lost productivity.
The plague of compulsory creativity may be dying out
I’m not creative. Neither are most of my colleagues. The Financial Times employs clever people who know how to spot stories, write them elegantly, and give readers the right mix of familiarity and surprise. Experience, knowledge, practice, judgment, skill and intelligence play a part. So does an ability to write. And think. Creativity barely comes into it. This is not to insult the FT. It is to compliment it.
Viewpoint: If offices don’t evolve, they become extinct
Is your team ready to follow other Delaware companies in the agile-office concept?
Delaware’s strategically focused companies are all about disruption, turning the old office model on its head. Technology, connectivity, and perceptions about how work gets done are changing so rapidly that the focus of today’s discussions about office space design has changed from a demand for cheap space to a demand for “smart” space.