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.
The Workplace Futures Report predicts that 'Open Work' spaces of 2025 will be multidimensional, multigenerational and interactive, where three archetypes of Sentient, Hospitality and Flat Age workspaces are positively amalgamated.
The issue of noise has actually become much worse over the last 12 months, with more workers complaining compared to the same research conducted in 2016.
For decades, interior designers have known that design can affect the health of occupants by causing or preventing disease and even supporting health.
Several decades ago, cubicle farms led creative workplace trends. Corporate America’s workforce was largely defined by the quantity of human capital spurring maximum personnel per square foot.
Workplaces across the globe are becoming more collaborative, technologically sophisticated and departmentally integrated to foster innovation and attract talent.
Whether it’s sitting next to a sneezing colleague or using the same office equipment as someone who really should be resting at home, it doesn’t take much for viruses to spread quickly through the office.
Two years ago, Relativity decided to remove cubicles for its staffers, because the employees and management found them to be “very limiting."
For individual companies, investing in air filters might improve the productivity of indoor workers enough to pay for the devices and add to the bottom line (not to mention potentially reducing health care costs).
Alexa will be able to control the environment, help people find directions, book a room, report an issue, or find transportation
Thoughtful design, paired with a change management program to educate staff, can both enhance connectivity and minimize distractions.
Common-area amenities are an important thrust of new office design, covering a wide range of spaces, such as conference rooms, tenant lounges, gyms and game rooms.
In pursuit of younger workers, companies have spent the past decade adding perks like craft beer on tap or a pool table that employees can lounge around. Now they want to make sure people outside the office know about all the fun.
55 percent of people working in education who took part in the survey believe that not enough is done to provide students with collaboration skills.
The clearest instance of how much of a problem it is? People put on headphones all the time. Headphones have become the new walls.
A separate workforce study — also published recently by a flexible-hiring company, also in concert with an independent third party — reported that telecommuting is most common among management positions, with professional, scientific and technical services industries featuring the highest percentage of telecommuters relative to their share of the workforce.
Some of what constitutes a WELL building comes down to the hardware of air filtration systems and window design, while some of it comes down to offering healthy food, opportunities for breaks between meetings or educational programmes for the tenant.
Data collection in the workplace and its impact on designers and end users continues to trend as the next step in understanding the built environment and informing the design process.
Keep in mind:The presence of Ping-Pong and foosball tables may be off-putting to a more traditional client base.
Bob Fox recently caught up with Social Tables CEO, Dan Berger to check in on how the space is continuing to help the company grow while also communicating their “outrageous” vision.
