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.
Watch James Ludwig, Vice President of Design and Engineering for Steelcase, as he answers five questions in five minutes on the future of the workplace in a post-COVID world and the unique opportunity it presents designers in the episode 1 of the series Designing What's Next.
As offices begin to plan for the future, communal spaces—which had been in very high demand before the pandemic—are a big question mark.
Who gets to keep the reduced corporate overhead, which employers will likely benefit from as a result of needing a smaller office footprint?
Office spaces will become a hive of activity in the future as more businesses embrace office designs which promote innovation, creativity and team collaboration, predicts commercial real estate advisors Colliers International.
If designers want to take the lead in shaping the post-pandemic office, they need to embrace ideas that are not accepted by the mainstream yet.
Companies like Salesforce created workplaces with all the comforts of home. But now they may feel more like hospitals.
Since coronavirus lockdowns forced workers to take their jobs home, the home office has once again become a much-coveted feature of modern living.
Office politics are alive and well, even when the watercooler or conference room is virtual. Here is why science says we’ll never get away from them.
The standard linear rows of desks and chairs that many of us are familiar with make physical distancing difficult, so a new approach is needed
For some, quarantine has created options for work-life balance, but for others it means a devastating loss of everyday connections.
Miserable as it can often be, remote work is surprisingly productive — leading many employers to wonder if they’ll ever go back to the office.
The pandemic has forced us to rethink the way we work and given us a lesson in what is really important.
Office employees have spent years fine-tuning the argument in favor of work-from-anywhere policies. Now the coronavirus pandemic may turn the whole debate upside down.
In a world of heightened sensitivity, designers who pay attention to workers’ sensory intelligence will create environments where people can thrive.
Some companies may consider remote working for up to 35% of their workforce on a more permanent basis, the report said.
Demand for office space may see a huge decrease once stay-at-home orders are lifted, according to a new survey by Global Workplace Analytics.
As many of us work from our home offices, one thing has become abundantly clear throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: how important working together in a physical space is for the quality and innovation. But we have to rethink how we are going to keep our spaces and employees safe during re-entry.
