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.
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.
A little bit of stress at work is good for you, but there is absolutely no health benefit to being too stressed at work.
That's the view of Joan Kingsley, a consultant clinical and organisational therapist. Kingsley spent 25 years researching workplace psychology and co-authored a book, 'The Fear-free Organization: Vital Insights from Neuroscience to Transform Your Business Culture'. She has come up with eight signs that you are suffering from stress at work, and what to do about it.
Nonresidential construction spending fell in September for the first time in eight months, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, but the monthly drop in spending is not a cause for concern according to analysis by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). Nonresidential construction spending fell by 0.1% from August, totaling $692.8 billion on a seasonally adjusted annualized basis.
People who work in well-ventilated offices with below-average levels of indoor pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2) have significantly higher cognitive functioning scores—in crucial areas such as responding to a crisis or developing strategy—than those who work in offices with typical levels, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and Syracuse University.
Maybe those of us who sit for long hours in meetings, on phone calls, and tapping away at keyboards should be getting hazard pay. New research that distills the findings of 47 studies concludes that those of us who sit for long hours raise our average risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and early death.
Open plan offices are the norm — but are they any good? Do people like working in them or are most companies inadvertently reducing the productivity and effectiveness of their more introverted employees? Recent studies provide telling answers to these questions while office suppliers are offering new alternatives, from semi-private screened off booths to private glass pods, to house the more introvert half of the workforce.
In May, Richard Thaler, a professor of economics and behavioral science at the University of Chicago’s business school, wrote an article for the New York Times that clearly lays out how much of our behavior, which we’d like to think is rationally driven, simply is not. It’s titled, “Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior,” and available at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/upshot/unless-you-are-spock-irrelevant-things-matter-in-economic-behavior.html?_r=0.
Read on officeinsight.com [paywall]
Many people pay little attention to the air, light and other elements around them when they are working in an office or are at home.
Scientists increasingly are taking a critical look at such indoor environmental factors, which they say can affect our personal health and work performance. Specially outfitted buildings are being turned into laboratories to determine optimum air-ventilation rates, room temperatures, types of sounds and other features, and even whether these should change during the year.
Read the article on WSJ.com [paywall]
