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.
Much speculation has been made about how Gen Z will embrace the workplace, so Ted Moudis’ Kate Wieczorek asked a Gen Z-er to share her unique insights, and what they expect from their employers.
If dogs are mankind's best friend, it's a little sad that office jobs typically require leaving them home all day long.
How many square feet people are willing to live in has been shrinking for years, and now their offices are shrinking too.
As the trend of corporate workplace design has shifted toward an open concept, workplaces have struggled to find the appropriate level of ancillary space to balance so much public work space.
The future of workplace design is engaging with individuals and asking them what they want from their space.
A recent Think Tank panel dwelled on aspects of flexibility and choice, two key factors in keeping employees happy.
Our labor laws are weak enough as they are—and technology is constantly helping companies find ways around the ones that do exist to more closely monitor and analyze their workers.
The gig economy in the US is growing exponentially, and with projections of freelancers making up almost half of the US workforce by 2027, employers are keen on engaging this talent pool.
Many companies with offices around the world may have a universal aesthetic, but localization is key to the most successful workplaces, say designers Dari Shechter and Lily Stanger.
A supposed news item in Crain’s New York Business has claimed that WeWork is ‘squeezing’ people into half the space recommended in the BCO’s Specification Guide; “roughly the size of two standard doors laying side by side”.
The results of the survey clearly show a general move toward more open work environments, and employees are embracing the change.
Collaborative spaces have come under fire as of late, and more often than not, the fingers are being pointed at open offices. This recent outcry has led some to doubt ifcollaboration itself isn’t to blame.
Steelcase CEO Jim Keane explains how giving people work-space choices can make workplace behavior more human.
Already, technologies once confined to the realm of science fiction are trickling into our everyday lives. But how can we use these impressive advancements—existing and envisioned—to create a better workplace?
No matter where you are in the world, new research tells us the conditions needed for successful collaboration are universal.
The debate on open plan versus enclosed offices rages on, but workplace design is not a such a simple dichotomy.
