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.
We are now deep enough into the work-from-home experiment that, beyond speculation, we have data about what happens when we work remotely en masse — what we gain and what we lose when we are out of the office.
Since the start of the pandemic, there’s been as much debate about whether we’ll return to offices—let alone what that return will look like when we do return.
The way we worked before covid was fundamentally broken; our wellbeing, our climate and our business efficiency.
What if we used more affordable, readily available materials in the construction of furniture? Drywall? Dry furniture. takes the common construction material – drywall – and applies it to a a stool, shelving unit, coffee table, and bedside table. Each piece is constructed using just three household tools: a craft knife, a ruler, and a bottle of PVA glue.
Companies that use offices as “centres of gravity” and places for connection likely won’t require as much space as before. Their workplaces will become more about human experiences and collaboration rather than square footage.
A new report from Poly claims that there is a ‘granular shift’ in focus from place to purpose of work as businesses respond to the COVID-19 crisis, redesign their operations and reinvent the way they work.
Corporate America is downsizing its real estate footprint as companies allow more employees to work from home, a growing threat to the bottom line of owners of traditional office buildings and a sign that companies are looking for ways to cut costs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
We will still be going to the office, but the buildings that we use will be newer and better aligned for social distancing.
How quickly things can change. Before the pandemic, an explosion of office amenities was being driven by the tech industry, pushing the importance of collaboration and creativity as a source of their competitive advantage.
The pandemic has forced us to rethink the way we work and given us a lesson in what is really important.
Employee safety will be more important than ever in the offices we return to, but so will social connection and collaboration.
Take a look at the first results of ThinkLab’s Industry Impact Survey, which is generating data to help designers and design manufacturers move forward during these challenging times.
The coronavirus pandemic has upended everything, including people’s trust in the places and spaces where we work.
The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating workers’ worries about returning to jobs in these often debated floor plans.
The debate around the impact of sudden widespread remote working has sometimes been couched in terms of either/or; office versus home.
About 70% of US offices are open-plan workspaces, designed to encourage colleagues to bump into each other and share ideas—and, unwittingly, droplets of spit, mucus, and phlegm that can carry pestilential pathogens. Health experts are beginning to suggest that might need to change.
Contract tracing apps for co-workers, elevator ‘safe zones,' infrared body temperature scanners — businesses are beginning to re-imagine office spaces after the coronavirus.
