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.
Sixty-five percent of those aged 18-24 said they prefer working in a traditional office environment, challenging the widespread perception that millennial and Gen Z workers tend to prefer digital interactions over personal ones.
A workplace that improves employee productivity and efficiency has been a white whale of corporate managers for decades.
A recent study discovered that poorly planned workplaces have a significant impact on employee morale and performance, reports Buildings.
Data shows that employee experience is the primary driver for companies redesigning their workplace .
Steelcase’s Christine Congdon, Director of Global Research and Editor of 360 Magazine shares her thoughts on the rise of the ‘Creature Comforts’ trend in the contract furniture market.
Why are people migrating away from their desks? What kinds of spaces are they looking for? Is it as simple as adding some sofas and a barista bar to give people the kind of workplace they want?
Over half of UK workers (53 percent) say that the standard of technology is a key consideration for accepting a new job role and more than 1 in 3 (37 percent) would decline a job based on poor hardware alone, claims a new survey.
HOK’s WorkPlace group has released “The New Financial Workplace,” a report that investigates the forces reshaping the financial industry and suggests how workplace design can position these companies for success.
Among the trends reshaping the U.S. workplace, more Americans see outsourcing of jobs, more immigrant workers and imports as negative rather than positive forces when it comes to their livelihoods, according to a Pew Research Center surveyconducted in August and September 2017.
A year of hard work culminated with the final CBRE Furniture Forum in Chicago this past November, and left us wondering: what’s next for CBRE’s Julie Deignan and Contract Consulting Group’s Amanda Schneider?
Up to 800 million workers worldwide may find their jobs disrupted and displaced by robots and automation by 2030, around a fifth of the global labour force, according to a new reportcovering 46 nations and over 800 occupations carried out by McKinsey & Co.
Survey of 4,000+ Quantifies Direct Impact of Design on Great Experiences Across Retail, Public Spaces and Workplaces.
This year’s report utlines that FY17 was a time of global change, the continued elevation of FM and strategic realignment for IFMA.
Space has the ability to transform a company’s culture and provide an engaging employee experience vital to success in today’s competitive market. Delivering this experience can be enhanced with a multitude of technology and data sources, all promising the answer to workplace success.
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.
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 online poll quizzed 1,021 adults in September. It claims that aside from pay, more than half of Scottish workers (53 percent) say flexible working is important when looking for a new job.
