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 number one goal is to elevate the employee-owner experience through IAQ transparency. Studies have shown that sharing this data alone can increase occupants’ positive perceive of environments they cannot fully control.
Standing desks have emerged as the fastest growing employee benefit in U.S. workplaces, according to a June report from the Society for Human Resource Management. The group’s annual survey of HR professionals found that 44 percent said their company this year is either providing or subsidizing the use of standing desks, up from 13 percent in 2013.
The majority of North American office workers expect their employers to provide technology that allows them to work from wherever they choose and three quarter of employees (74 percent) would rather leave their job to work for an organization that would allow them to work remotely more often, even if their salary stayed the same.
“Remote workers don’t have a physical presence in the office, so their colleagues may be under the impression that they bring less to the table or aren’t a member of the team, even though that’s often not true.”
Even though most people think about themselves as primarily visual beings, neuroscience reveals a complex “connectome” of brain cells that connects all of our senses. Try writing a report in a noisy, uncomfortable place with the smells of the office microwave wafting over to your desk, and the importance of other senses becomes clear.
Design-forward workplaces help employees be more creative and innovative. Professionals — especially millennials — crave flexible workspaces that enable social interactions and accommodate all kinds of work styles. And professionals have a lot of interest in environmentally friendly initiatives.
Capital One’s Work Environment Survey— carried out by Wakefield Research— was recently released, showing that office configuration and format holds a whole lot of weight for the American worker: when the time comes for a new job, 71% of millennial respondents thought that “workplace design and environment” was just as or more significant than where the office is geographically.
Older workers tend to be more unhappy in their jobs than their younger colleagues, according to a survey of more than 2,000 U.K. employees by human resource firm Robert Half U.K. One in six British workers over age 35 said they were unhappy—more than double the number for those under 35.
Office leasing activity has been remarkably stable during the first half of 2017, with global volumes virtually unchanged on the same period of 2016.
If your employees are stuck in assigned workspaces and can't control how they work, get ready to disassemble the cubicles.
Nearly one in three (28 percent) of employers are struggling to keep their employees engaged, claims new research from totaljobs, with staff spending too much time internet browsing, being constantly late and chatting with colleagues.
Contrary to popular belief, the majority of workers under the age of 35 actually prefer office life to working remotely, a new report has found.
For the past 16 years, the population of the U.S. has been dominated by older adults, and this trend is expected to continue in the years to come. It is estimated that by 2030, senior citizens will represent 20 percent of the population (72 million people).
Dogs are already known to be stress relievers for people who have them in their homes, but to have them in a place where people are the most stressed makes a significant difference in the success of a business as well.
As demand grows for inventive solutions, companies and knowledge workers alike are increasingly prioritizing creative thinking. In this month’s news aggregate, we explore the rising importance of creativity at work and consider how this shift has affected today’s organizations.
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’.
Not so long ago, smart office buildings were seen as something out of a sci-fi movie, but today the technology exists to make them a reality. So how will the smart office benefit the people and businesses that occupy it? British Land’s new report, written in collaboration with WORKTECH Academy, seeks to pinpoint these benefits and locate where we are on the journey towards seeing them becoming widespread.
Researchers are focusing on the impact of sitting at work on one’s health, and determining what reasonable courses of action can be taken to reduce adverse health effects of office/sedentary work. One such intervention has been the introduction of sit-stand workstations.
What does the world of work look like as Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, bots and big data infiltrate more of our lives? Ben Pring, co-leader of Cognizant’s Future of Work Center, asks that question in “What to Do When Machines Do Everything.” His new book, co-authored with Malcolm Frank and Paul Roehrig, offers a realistic and optimistic view of the future of work. 360 sat down with Pring to hear about what his research reveals about our near, and more distant, future.
