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TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
Manufacturer, NeoCon 2021
Source: CFN News Desk
Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ...

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.

Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief ...

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.

Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer
Manufacturer
Source: CFN News Desk
Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to ...

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.

Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to provide air quality monitoring and viral detection technology
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

For over 50 years, Heller offered leading designers the opportunity to work with new technologies to create innovative products. Those were great partnerships and they resulted in great products.

Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

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The secret to workplace happiness

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The secret to workplace happiness

Office interior design practice devises equation to calculate staff wellbeing.

Happiness = (T9+A8) + (F7+HC6) – B7

This, according to an office design specialist, is the formula to apply if you want to know how happy your staff are.

Peldon Rose conducted a survey of almost 1,000 people to formulate the equation, under which F means “frolleagues” – a portmanteau of friends and colleagues – HC stands for home comforts, A is appreciation, T is trust and B is Boredom. The equation aims to reflect the relative importance of each of these factors.

Read the article on onofficemagazine.com >

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Firms demanding more data about workplaces…and they’re about to get it

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Firms demanding more data about workplaces…and they’re about to get it

Companies are increasingly focussed on generating workplace data as they seek to make better decisions about the ways their real estate supports their key organisational objectives. That is one of the key findings of the latest European Occupier Survey from property consultants CBRE (login required). The good news (or bad news, depending on your point of view) is they’re about to get it in spades, according to another study from researchers International Data Corporation which found that there will be a huge surge in the availability of Big Data infrastructure in EMEA countries over the next four years. The acquisition of data about buildings and their inhabitants remains a troublesome issue, especially when executives do things like introduce sensors to monitor working patterns of employees without their knowledge, asbosses at The Telegraph found in a very public way recently.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net >

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Forget all the talk of Blue Monday; work is still (largely) good for us

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Forget all the talk of Blue Monday; work is still (largely) good for us

Today is Blue Monday, supposedly the most depressing day of the year. But for many people, work always appears to get them down. Negative attitudes to our working lives have been consistent in the way work has been reflected by artists for at least the past hundred years. From Charlie Chaplin’s oppressed and endangered little tramp in Modern Times to Terry Gilliam’s fetid offices in Brazil. From Edward Hopper’s portrayals of the distances between workers to the cool symmetry of Andreas Gursky’s photography of offices and factories. From Orwell’s depiction of the future as a human face under a patriarchal jackboot to Tom Wolfe’s rich, successful but miserable and amoral masters of the universe in Bonfire of the Vanities. It is a worldview reflected in the media, where happiness writes white and what news there remains, is generally bad news fed by the agenda-furthering doom-mongering press releases of vested interests.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net >

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Three quarters of Millennials will change jobs over the next five years

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Three quarters of Millennials will change jobs over the next five years

It must be the time of year but we are suddenly awash with surveys and reports suggesting that pretty much everybody in the UK is about to change their jobs. Following our report earlier in the week that suggests older workers are perfectly prepared to just give up on work completely, it was inevitable that we were about to hear something from those pesky Millennials. Sure enough, along comes a report from Deloitte that suggests that nearly three quarters of Millennials plans to leave their jobs over the next five years. Millennials and their employers: Can this relationship be saved? found that the UK has a higher than average percentage of Millennials planning to change jobs in the next five years, with the average in developed economies standing at 61 percent. Worldwide, forty-four percent of Millennials say, if given the choice, they expect to leave their current employers in the next two years.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net >

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THE INTERNET ISN'T WHAT'S DISTRACTING US THE MOST AT WORK

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THE INTERNET ISN'T WHAT'S DISTRACTING US THE MOST AT WORK

How we spend time at work not working is changing the way we manage work-life balance, and it might not be what you think. Raise your hand if you think a quick scan of Facebook or the news is the most common source of distraction at work. Turns out, social media and web surfing still don’t hold a candle to chitchat or a coffee break as the biggest time sucks in the workplace.

Read the article on fastcompany.com >

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Will Robots Save The Future Of Work?

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Will Robots Save The Future Of Work?

Is a robot coming for your job? It’s not a novel question, but if Gartner’s predictions are correct, the answer could be leaning more definitively toward yes. The analyst firm’s research suggests one in three jobs will be converted to software, robots and smart machines by 2025. What is new, however, is that the influx of robots in the workforce is no longer just a concern confined to manufacturing floors filled with mechanized assembly lines, one of Google’s driverless concept cars passing by or the notion of a drone soon replacing the friendly UPS delivery man.

Read the article on techcrunch.com >

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New study indicates students’ cognitive functioning improves when using standing desks

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New study indicates students’ cognitive functioning improves when using standing desks

Do students think best when on their feet? A new study by the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health indicates they do.

Findings published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health provide the first evidence of neurocognitive benefits of stand-height desks in classrooms, where students are given the choice to stand or sit based on their preferences.

Read the article on psypost.org >

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THE CHALLENGE AND PROMISE OF THE VERTICAL CAMPUS

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THE CHALLENGE AND PROMISE OF THE VERTICAL CAMPUS

Kay Sargent, director of workplace strategies at Lend Lease, explores why the vertical campus — as opposed to the suburban corporate campus of yesteryear — is the natural outcome of both urban regeneration and new city development.

Read the article on workdesign.com > [paywall]

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Authentic Synergized Design in the Live Work Play Environment

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Authentic Synergized Design in the Live Work Play Environment

Current development practices have taken a marked turn away from putting all the proverbial “eggs in one basket” and are now focused on diversification and “placemaking.” Though the word is a bit overused in today’s master planning lexicon, placemaking describes the positive results that can arise from an authentic Live, Work, Play oriented project.

Read the article on gensleron.com >

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Employees speak out about what they want in an office

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Employees speak out about what they want in an office

Some 73 percent of surveyed staff in four major Czech cities would appreciate to have the opportunity to see their potential workplace prior to signing an employment contract. “This corresponds with the general perception of the industry that employees are educated about their rights and privileges, and pay attention to the general working environment,” Petr Kareš, head of tenant representation at JLL, said in a news release.

Read the article in praguepost.com >

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Strategy in 2016: All Custom Everything

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Strategy in 2016: All Custom Everything

The workplace of the future may not look like the Jetsons’ office, but will change indefinitely based on how you define it.

As technological advances allow us to work anywhere but the office, teleworking is an employee perk that is cropping up with greater frequency. And as workplace footprints contract, virtual connectivity is a growing skill set for managers. So, how are companies using the workplace and real estate opportunities to recruit and retain the best talent? Or, put more simply, are the teleworkers of today the leaders of tomorrow? Based on my 17 years as a designer and workplace strategist teleworking, and the perceived disconnect, teleworking doesn’t promote leadership: Being in the office does.

Read the article on interiorarchitects.com >

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Why CES is so important for office furniture (and every other industry)

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Why CES is so important for office furniture (and every other industry)

You might be tempted to dismiss the Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas last week, as having nothing to do with the office furniture industry. After all, it is “consumer” and we do corporate, right? Ignore the show at your own peril. As a barometer of the future of technology, the office furniture industry has much to learn from what’s happening at CES.

Read the article on bof.press >

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How smart workplaces increase performance and attractiveness

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How smart workplaces increase performance and attractiveness

The workplace can and should be used as a strategic tool to support work and cooperation, to shape the experience of the brand and to produce competitive advantage for the organization. Even when not used as a strategic tool the workplace still affects all these parts and there is always a risk that the workplace has instead a negative impact if we are not aware of the relationship and really use workplace as a strategic tool to affect attractiveness, productivity, efficiency and sustainability. The workplace makes a great difference and it is becoming an important differentiator between successful and less successful organizations. I also strongly believe that the workplace management area is a key for us in the FM industry to bring FM to a higher level, to shift from cost focus to more value focus, and this is something we need to do together within the FM industry and we really should take the driver’s seat. But, let’s start from the beginning.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net > 

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EGD In 2016: The Community-Driven “Culture Club”

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EGD In 2016: The Community-Driven “Culture Club”

Across a vast majority of IA’s environmental graphic design (EGD) in 2015, there was a resounding theme: An office should be personalized – not just with the identity of the company, but with the identity of everyone who works there. We predict a continued emphasis on the representation of corporate culture, personalized by the resident workforce, throughout 2016.

Read the article on interiorarchitects.com >

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Is This the Office of the Future?

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Is This the Office of the Future?

The modern workplace has changed dramatically over the past several decades, shifting from private offices to collaborative open-plan spaces and adapting to technological innovations and increasingly mobile employees. Clive Wilkinson Architects, the California-based firm behind some of the highest-profile work spaces in recent years, including Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters, has created a concept for the future of working.

Read the article on architecturaldigest.com >

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LEARNING FROM THE WORST WORKPLACES EVER

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LEARNING FROM THE WORST WORKPLACES EVER

At one time or another in our professional lives, we have all found ourselves in a work environment that was so uninspiring that it taught us something. That corner office that was in such a poor state that you felt the uncontrollable urge to rearrange immediately, shifting around filing cabinets and desks to create some sense of community. It can actually be a fabulous and enriching exercise to learn from the bad.

Read the article on workdesign.com >

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The six things all people need from their workplace

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The six things all people need from their workplace

Whether we like it or not, we all have to work for some, or more usually, most of our adult life. During this time, many of us will work in an office, which is a place that has changed immensely – not only in the last ten years or so, but almost entirely since the start of the twentieth century. The management structure and style of companies, the tools available to the workforce, and the places within the office buildings have been changing and evolving. There has been a shift from hierarchical management structures to a more diverse and organic model. The tools of work have changed from the humble typewritten letter and Bakelite telephone to 24/7 access to emails though laptops and smart phones. And finally the workplace itself has evolved from one with enclosed offices for the senior managers, or a sea of cubicles to workplaces that encourage creativity and collaboration.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net >

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