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.
Our smartphones have enabled us to do everything, everywhere–and our physical spaces are changing as a result, according to a comprehensive new survey by the architecture firm Gensler.
The majority of middle management (67 percent) and junior employees (57 percent) say their office environment has a positive impact on their happiness, compared to C-Suite executives (56 percent).
The death of cubicles and cable-ridden office desks has been long predicted, as minimalist gadgets and greenery are taking over the traditional workspaces. Millennials and Generation Z will continue to influence the direction of office design, going for everything small, smart, practical and collaborative.
What started as an industry-wide discussion in one market has extended, and the conversation is getting deeper and increasingly thought-provoking. But how do you drive change in an entire industry? One conversation at a time.
At the heart of this strategy is the “Allen curve,” named for MIT researcher Thomas J. Allen’s observation that the closer people sit, the more they communicate, both in person and through other media. Allen found that people are four times more likely to communicate with a colleague who sits six feet away than with one who sits 60 feet away. Coworkers who sit 150 feet or more away from each other communicate as often as colleagues in separate cities.
New evidence of a strong correlation between productivity, creativity and even profitability with employee working conditions, such as: light, air, noise, health, culture, design, movement and the quality of furniture have been established in a new report.
To be more successful, productive and creative, Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, explores four rules for embracing meaningful work.
Although remote work is more prevalent in the tech-sphere, it can be found in many other industries. If you’re a developer or programmer, you don’t have to waste time looking for a “real” job. You can get gigs through services like Upwork, but you can also work for a specific company.
Rapid growth at the online retail giant has had a domino effect on Seattle’s economy, helping create one of the strongest real-estate markets in the country.
NextGen Work is a global phenomenon. Emerging markets like India and Mexico are leading the way with the greatest openness to freelance, contract, temporary or independent contract work (97 percent), with mature markets – including the U.S. (94 percent), with the UK and Australia– close behind (90 and 92 percent respectively). Germany, Netherlands and Japan are more resistant to NextGen Work.
The majority (83 percent) of workers view flexible working as an important benefit to them but two thirds (66 percent) believe that taking up flexible working halts progression at work.
In the game of life, more people are eschewing the corporate ladder for flexible work arrangements. But it seems the board is getting crowded lately, which is leading some gig workers–and the companies that support them–to try to separate themselves from the rabble.
So was the workplace section of the show indicative of the most talked about issues in the field of contemporary office design? The answer is not really. While the majority of people in offices still spend their working lives at bench desks sitting on task chairs – a fact reflected in the products on show from Hands, Orangebox, Flokk, Nowy Styl and Century Office – there was little to highlight one of the two most talked about issues in the workplace right now; sit – stand desking.
Microsoft Envision 2017 showcased cutting-edge technology and its impact on the cars we drive and the places we work. Keane and Gavin showcased Creative Spaces — an ecosystem of technology-enabled spaces designed to support all the stages of the creative process including focus, co-creation, ideation, experimentation and respite. The two leaders talked about their shared mission — to help people unlock their potential. They also demonstrated how by working together their teams designed spaces that help people get the most from their technology, allowing them to easily move from one setting to another without interrupting the flow of creative work.
An ex-Birchbox executive is looking to bring radical transparency to furniture buying, and it’s about time.
Once the corporate heads took notice of how and where people were working, the concept of “the Third Place” was born, supported by increasingly powerful, efficient and robust technology to support leading to a culture of “working in place” replacing “working in a single location.”
The Think Tank, sponsored by Legat Architects and DIRTT Environmental Solutions, brings together leading voices from a variety of disciplines to explore how research and design impact people’s lives. The theme of this year’s symposium was health, safety, and wellness.
A growing number of employees are frustrated in their attempts to adopt flexible working by the inability of employers to offer it, a new study claims.
Last week, over 600 workplace and property experts met in London at the CoreNet Global Summit 2017 to discuss some of the most important trends affecting the sector.
