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.
Introverts are good at being alone. Introverts are already comfortable being inside their own heads, so long hours working by themselves on a project doesn’t phase. Where an Extrovert loses steam when they are not surrounded by large groups of people, Introverts draw power from their alone time, where they can focus solely on the task at hand.
BSRIA has launched its Workplaces of the Future publication which contemplates the office needs and desires from the perspective of the youth of today aka millennials and Generation Z.
The report also claims that the office of the future may not even need to be a workplace in the accepted sense of the word. With new and more advanced mobile devices, giving employees the freedom to work from anywhere, these technologies, it says will continue to reshape the look and feel of the ‘office’.
In a recent TED Talk, innovator Daan Roosegaarde called creativity “the new capital.” As organizations continue to accelerate digitization, effectiveness and efficiencies are no longer enough to grow the business. Organizations are looking for ways to boost the creativity of their people to encourage innovation.
Fifty years ago, the term wellness—if it was used at all—essentially meant “not sick.” Then, throughout the ’80s and ’90s, the rise of gym culture and workplace wellness
snowballed into an explosion of fitness boutiques in the early aughts. In city centers and upscale suburbs today, specialized fitness boutiques such as SoulCycle, PureBarre, Barry’s Bootcamp, and FlyWheel are nearly as ubiquitous as Starbucks. Combined with the rapid expansion of “health” branded grocery stores, an uptick in haute athletic wear, and a plethora of juice and smoothie companies, not to mention the surrounding media buzz, wellness has become not so much a trend as a booming industry.
Creative inspiration radiated from the TED stage. New data suggests people and organizations are increasingly seeking for ways to tap into more creative thinking as economic shifts continue to accelerate. According to recently released joint research from Steelcase and Microsoft, 72 percent of workers believe their future success depends on their ability to be creative. TED2017 offered a unique performance from OK Go, a rock band known for its mostly low-budget, visual delights. The band shared its creative process in a fittingly awe-inspiring way.
These innovative leaders are changing the world through their work in tech, fashion, food, entertainment, and more.
I dare you not to be stirred (and maybe a little intimidated) by all that this group is making happen. What our Most Creative People coverage reveals each year is just how broad and rich an impact business can have, regardless of any external economic and political conditions. There are always amazing things going on, if you pick your head up to notice them.
WORKTECH 17 New York took place on May 4 at Convene’s 117 W. 46th Street location, attracting, as it’s wont to do, some of the biggest and brightest names in the workplace and technology industries to debate and discuss the future of work.
Sara Armbruster, vice president strategy, research and new business innovation at Steelcase, spoke at the 8th Global Peter Drucker Forum about how the work environment can support new leadership behaviors. She joined 360 Real Time to discuss her belief that the workplace itself can help leaders lead better, and, in turn, help others around them succeed.
As successive BCO Specification Guides and the research of organisations like CoreNet Global have proved, the spatial dynamics of offices have changed dramatically in recent years. Put simply, the modern office serves significantly more people per square foot than ever before. Originally this tightening was largely down to the growing ubiquity of flat screen and the mobile devices, but more recently the major driver of change appears to be the gradual disappearance of personal workstations in favour of more shared space.The typical space allocated to an individual in a building has shrunk dramatically in the last few years, while the provision of public and meeting space has increased. The upshot is that the amount of personal space allocated to each individual in a building has fallen by over a fifth in just a few years and the very idea of using the number of employees to determine their individual space requirements without other considerations seems less relevant.
Is there too much co-working space? Has the super-stripped-back office had its day? With the British Council of Offices Conference taking place this week, the AJ asked some of the nation’s leading office designers for their answers
There are few better bellwethers of the state of the office development industry than the mood and topics of discussion at the annual BCO Conference.
When your biggest office distractions aren’t things like Slack or meetings or your own Facebook account but other people, your options for getting back on track may feel limited. The bad news is that they are pretty limited; when you get down to it, there are really only two potential courses of action open to you. The good news, on the other hand, is that you don’t need to learn a complicated mind hack to help you focus or to download yet another productivity app. Here’s a straightforward guide to prevent your irritating colleagues from driving you crazy.
The terms “workplace” and “culture” are almost synonymous in today’s business vernacular. Companies devote countless hours, resources, and strategies to defining and implementing distinct workplace cultures that support their goals, build their brands, and affect every aspect of the work environment—including the power to attract, engage, inspire, and retain talent. Culture may not always mean a static end game; instead it may be a shifting variable that is encouraging change and aligning with new behaviors and productivity. Take Google for example, “…Google doesn’t view their culture as a “set it and forget it” program. They’re actively changing and maintaining it, because it’s crucial to their success. “
Spending time with coworking space operators and professionals is the best way to go from being in the weeds about the day-to-day details of running a space or business to getting a bird’s eye view of the global coworking movement. Gathering in the same space reminds us where the movement has been and forges new pathways for where it’s going.
The Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC USA), which took place in New York City this past weekend dug deep into the heart of coworking and the extraordinary power it has to connect people, accelerate purpose and careers, and transform communities.
Steelcase has been in business for more than 100 years, creating places that unlock human promise for the world’s leading organizations. But what motivates our company and clients isn’t our products and what they can do — we’re motivated by people and what we can do together.
Actions form the foundation of culture, and we believe building a strong, sustainable business depends on getting culture right. We’re committed to unlocking human promise by moving from words to action and pursuing sustainability initiatives built on inclusion.
At a recent conference at the WWF’s Living Planet Centre in Woking staged by the office furniture firm Kinnarps, I had an off the cuff chat with James Woudhuysen who had just delivered one of his typically entertaining, erudite and challenging talks on the future of work alongside equally renowned speakers such as Philip Tidd and Namrata Krishna from architecture firm Gensler.
Wellness programs, free lunches, employee yoga. There's lots of ways companies try to create a sense of happiness and well-being for employees. In fact, many companies have large teams dedicated to it and spend millions of dollars to make sure their employees are happy. But what if forcing employees into being happy is actually hurting their performance and overall mental health?
Yes.
In earlier personal and discussion group posts, we talked about what it really means to be an introvert and what it has to do with work. We even found that, regardless of which you identify with, people crave the same types of spaces for group and individual work. We all face the same basic business needs when it comes to interacting with our colleagues. We all need time to focus, collaborate and re-energize.
Whether it was the historic TED Talk from Pope Francis, a pregnant Serena Williams or Elon Musk’s plan for an underground tunnel network, TED 2017 offered inspiring and innovative ideas dotting a diverse list of topics. With the theme “The Future You,” the impact of artificial intelligence came up again and again. How will machines change what it means to be human? Can we trust these machines? How will we work with them and how will they change the way we are working today?
Research, performed between Cornerstone OnDemand, a global leader in cloud-based talent management software, and researchers at Harvard Business School, has uncovered how the distance between two employees' desks affects various performance measures. According to the findings of this study, placing the right type of workers in close proximity to each other generated up to a 15% increase in organisational performance.
