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.
Surveys show employees are more satisfied with the office’s acoustics and lighting, as well as water and air quality, than the old office, with many reporting they even sleep better at night.
A recent study found that design can make employees up to 33% happier at work, and happy employees experience 31% higher productivity.
Critics of the open plan design worry that they are distracting, too loud or too exposed for many employees, fostering a sense of disruption and increasing workers’ stress.
“Our survey suggests that more people are using flexible workplace programmes, even though they have lingering concerns about the potential consequences [for] their professional development.”
Whether you want to make a strong statement or give a subtle nod to a company’s personality, using pattern in the office can have a compelling effect.
In the design industry, many started to leave the profession altogether because they need more flexibility in the way they work.
Where once the office layout was a physical manifestation of the org chart, defined by its groupings and hierarchies with people sitting in the same place and with the same people each day, modern agile workplaces are there to provide the different settings in which people can find the best place to work and can form their own groupings based on their specific needs.
Not only are we witnessing the evolution of how and where people work, how space is leased, but how workspace is designed and built out is changing as well.
Shifts toward greater workplace density and desk-sharing are challenging an old notion that “people” and “seats” are interchangeable for planning purposes.
The crowded, cacophonous, chaotic open-plan office has been blamed for so many things wrong with workplace design today. Studies have shown that sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with your colleagues can erode concentration, lower productivity, increase stress, and make us generally more anti-social.
Most will make you optimistic about the future. One will prep you for a dystopian, alternate universe. Just in case.
‘Superstore’ showrunner and ‘Office’ writer Justin Spitzer explores the best- and worst-case scenarios for the future of workplace culture.
A generation of workers is rejecting cookie-cutter office space, opting instead for the manufacturing lofts that once defined New York City.
Intelligent building software company COHESION recently conducted a survey to try to understand what office workers want most from workplace engagement tools.
