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.
Across the industry spectrum, we’re seeing a move toward human-centric places as enterprises strive to meet rapidly changing expectations by modernizing their work sites to serve the specific ways their people want to work.
The number of new office buildings constructed since the financial crisis in 2008 has fallen in a year on year comparison by 56 percent, according to an analysis of planning applications carried out by property lending platform Lendy
According to the research, UK workers visit the same workplace five days a week (82 percent) and work from the same desk in the office (80 percent), but they are feeling bored and uninspired by their working environments.
As companies seek to gain efficiencies in the workplace, provide choice for employees, and attract and retain talent, strategies involving agile working and free-address have gained traction.
Amazon has knocked Google off the top spot as the best place to work in the world, according to LinkedIn.
For companies looking to hire knowledge workers — of any age, who use and value the kinds of technological and workplace innovations that foster innovation and productivity — there's a market demand for flexible and amenity-driven workplaces.
Flexibility in where, when and how people work, including remote work, leads to an increase in innovation, as well as improvements in communication, creativity, productivity and engagement, according to a new study from the Flex+Strategy Group (FSG).
Amid a national conversation about issues such as gender-based pay gaps and sexual harassment and a shortage of female leadership, co-working spaces designed for womenare finding a role.
With millennials expected to make up half the workplace by 2020, there has been intense focus on how landlords can lure innovative, young companies and encourage them to stay.
One life insurance giant opened an office in New York City featuring “spaces that feel start-uppy,” free beer any time, and weirdly named conference rooms such as “Asteroid Impact” and “Snake Bite.”
Dubbed the ‘new walls’ of shared or open-plan offices, headphones allow workers to block out background noise during tasks that require intense concentration and focus.
Over a third of workers are adversely affected by a lack of natural light in their office, others complain that the lighting is too bright and a significant proportion say the quality of light provided is so weak they struggle to read.
Understanding a brand’s heritage and history can tell us a lot about how their offices should be designed.
