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.
The implosion of We is about more than bad billionaire behavior. It has exposed the innards of a deeply flawed system, one that impacts billions of people around the world.
WeWork, the former darling of the startup world, may be planning to lay off thousands of its workers this week, reports the New York Times.
How could the WeWork story get any more dramatic, tumultuous, and indeed negative? Cancer-causing phone booths, that's how.
Office-space startup WeWork lost $1.25 billion in the third quarter as expenses far outpaced revenue growth, draining the company’s cash ahead of a bailout by SoftBank Group Corp. last month.
In the wake of the WeWork IPO debacle, coworking and flexible office companies have been quick to point out how different they are from the industry's elephant in the room. But they say the entire fiasco has taught them a few things, and given them some benefits, too.
WeWork may have been pulled back from the edge of insolvency by its biggest investor, but many of its landlords are still preparing for a worst-case scenario.
Co-working investments are expected to maintain momentum over the next five years as corporate real estate executives continue to view flexible workspace as a necessary offering for their employees and crucial to operational cost reductions.
A joint-research from Gensler and the British Council of Offices (BCO) on the rise of flexible workspace in the UK corporate sector has uncovered that 40% of flexible space users would rather work from a conventional office, prompting questions about the viability of the flexible space solutions as it currently stands.
Former CEO Adam Neumann exited the firm with $1.7 billion while many employees are facing job insecurity and company equity that isn’t worth much.
NAIOP panelists warn that people take for granted how operationally intensive co-working really is due to the number of support teams necessary to make the locations successful every day.
From the “next Alibaba” to financial liability for SoftBank, here’s how the coworking startup got to this point.
WeWork’s board is expected to meet tomorrow to weigh emergency-financing options including a takeover by SoftBank Group Corp. that would slash the co-working company’s valuation to about $8 billion and alleviate a looming cash crunch.
WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, will be worth as little as $7.5 billion on paper as SoftBank takes control of the struggling co-working business, CNBC reports.
The manufacturer of the phone booths has not yet been officially identified, but from the photos provided from WeWork they appear to have been manufactured by Studiobricks in Spain.
“The short term could be a tumultuous time for flexible office space, but landlords, investors and lenders will become more educated over time,” CBRE says.
