Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
Gensler’s latest workplace research shows that most people’s preferred place to work is the office, even though many felt they were most effective when they had the option to work from home or remotely for part of the week.
It has been the centerpiece of corporate life for decades, but as companies reshape workplaces, many may find dedicated individual work areas no longer make sense.
Eighty-two percent of US based employers now believe the organization should absorb the cost of a home office setup for employees that work from home full-time.
How would America’s greatest architect design a home office? Could Frank Lloyd Wright, who had visionary solutions for contemporary living—from sustainable design, air conditioning, even open-plan offices—have an answer to the search for ideal Covid-era remote working configurations?
Needless to say, working from home is here to stay. Whether that is working from home all the time or just having the options and flexibility to do either, there is no escaping this new normal we live in.
Workers looking to trade up from makeshift ironing-board desks are increasingly turning to liquidators for the high-end furniture their companies once supplied.
Now that WFH actually works (sometimes), not only do CEOs have control and flexibility over work, but everyone else too.
For about a century, the Grand Rapids furniture-makers have relied almost exclusively on a business model in which authorized local dealers sell furniture in bulk to companies in high-rises and office parks.
It's a bad time to be selling furniture for high-rises in office parks, but it's a great time to be selling for the home office.
Candy Cubicle is a desk by Sabine Marcelis, created as part of the Design Museum's Connected project at the London Design Festival, that hides its contents inside a pale wooden shell when they are not in use.
In recent weeks, office landlords have been encouraging employers to bring their staff back, saying the future of the city's economy depends on it.
Self-styled visionaries and people particularly fond of their pajamas have for decades been arguing that a lot of work done in large shared offices could better be done at home.
Work from home trends resulting from COVID-19 will reshape the US housing market, likely becoming the norm well after shelter orders are lifted because many workers don’t have to live close to workplaces.
Design studio Dutch Invertuals has created a collection of compact offices made from corrugated aluminium and wood for Dutch holiday park operator Droomparken.
At the start of the pandemic, landlords were unsure what to make of companies declaring that their employees were just as productive at home as they were at work. Now it is clear this is a viable trend.
