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.
Building an effective open floor plan office requires more than putting employees in one big room with standing desks. Here are best practices and potential pitfalls every company should understand when creating an open workspace.
In an activity based working reboot the mission is to identify what has got stuck and how-to re-start.
In order to figure out how to design these future environments, we must start by exploring whywe design them.
Workplace data is being put to use by corporate service groups (such as Human Resources and IT) to provide a better employee experience and empower the businesses that are their customers.
Research by The Instant Group and HLW found that those using flexible workspace are enjoying higher levels of productivity, better business opportunities, and improved work environments.
The WeWork phenomenon underscores the demand for agile working models, giving start up businesses exactly what they want as the trend become absorbed into mainstream corporate culture.
Companies have focused on making offices more comfortable and collaborative, but they still need to get over long-standing tech hurdles. That's where the smart office comes in.
With millennials now comprising over 65 percent of the workforce, offices are being designed to adapt to their changing attitudes.
The moment either a visitor or an employee first steps into a company’s workplace, they learn about two things: the company’s business focus and the culture of its people, both of which are reflections of one another. What ties the two together is the workplace itself.
We know the number of freelancers is on the rise, but more than half (55%) of hiring managers agree that remote work among full-time permanent employees is becoming more common, too.
Rather than promoting these wellness programs, companies should instead design the workplace itself to support wellness.
Go ahead and take a seat for this one. Remember that time you read an article about how sitting all day at a desk will kill you and not just in a dead-on-the-inside way? Well, it turns out that standing all day may not be so great either.
The biggest worry on executives' minds around the world isn't recession, global competition, or labour relations. Rather, a report shows that what's keeping C-level executives up at night is their people strategies.
To better understand Agile work and to support our own Agile journey, Steelcase has built a behavioral prototype of spaces to serve the needs of Agile workers.
The more you think about fitting in, the less sense it makes. Few people really want to be a part of a groupthink session, or to line up exactly with existing employees and company norms.
The recent WE Hub Chicago event, focused on “Measuring What Matters”, gathered a panel of industry professionals to discuss how workplace analytics are becoming critical evidence for organizations to maximize human potential by evolving their workplace.
Thinking of getting standing desks for your employees … or even for yourself? You might want to think again.
Although it has been proposed that this desire for a connection with nature is the result of an anti-urban bias combined with a romantic view of nature, environmental psychology research tells us that being connected to nature, is in fact, an adaptive human function that allows for, and assists with, psychological restoration.
Green offices incorporate natural elements such as daylight and plants to reduce stress levels, which ultimately leads to happier and more productive employees.
