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.
One could argue that technology has done more to harm humans than to help them. Interactions that were once between people have been redirected toward screens—just think of office exchanges, self-checkouts and online purchases.
So where are we headed in the next 10 years? Will our current workplace tools be a faint memory like floppy disks and DSL?
Collaboration is more likely to lead to innovation if it's the right kind of collaboration, and if it's supported in the right way.
The door desk continues to occupy a central place in Amazon’s internal mythology, with the company handing out an internal “Door Desk Award” for cost-saving ideas.
There is a cultural movement underway — people are seeking out more informal, inspiring and flexible workspaces to get their work done.
Oh the times, they are indeed a-changin’, and the cubicle walls in today’s workplace are coming down (with the option of popping right back up, if needed).
Employers can make major performance and productivity improvements by taking a more strategic approach to where they place their people, a new report suggests.
Collaboration is good for business but is seldom easy; how companies shed silos and get employees communicating.
The workplace can change and impact productivity, happiness and engagement, both positively and negatively.
The investment in Redmond also assumes workers will be be using offices in the future, when it’s clear many won’t.
New York-based Meetup, which has 35 million members on its platform, will give WeWork access to a giant new audience: people who may eventually be converted to WeWorkers.
The OECD has published a major new report which it claims set out an internationally agreed set of guidelines to measure the quality of the working environment.
Although they’re becoming rare artifacts now that open offices and flat structures are firmly in vogue, larger-than-life corner-office desks still live in some corporate spaces.
Workplaces need to be consumer-centric and focus on the usability and comfortability of the space. Multi-sensory design engages all five senses and transforms spaces to support our experience at work.
A new Steelcase Learning and Innovation Center in Munich is designed to help create a more agile organization to accelerate innovation.
80 percent of all offices now have an open floor plan. Traditional companies have moved towards open plans to inject some much-needed creativity and serendipity into their offices, just like the cool start-ups.
