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.
We believe 2018 will be dominated by companies looking to simplify their workplace management tech stack. Corporate real estate leaders will need to adopt consolidated workplace solutions that integrate smoothly with multiple systems and provide value for the organization in a single, user-friendly interface.
The fast evolution of technology is the key driving force of this change, altering traditional models of working.
In the next few years (if not already) people, workers, employees (or talent in the current vernacular), will become the most critical resource adding value to businesses. At the same time, we will be entering an era where demand for worker talent will exceed supply.
People today are hardly sedentary. Thanks, in part, to advances in smartphone technology and location-based services, the average person has the freedom to work, travel, and play wherever they choose.
Over the past few years, big data has elevated workplace strategy to new levels. Project teams leverage workplace data to create informed design solutions that help companies achieve corporate goals and optimize their real estate.
From games rooms and comfy seating to the neighborhood’s best coffee bar, the hallmarks of the tech-inspired workplace can make flexible, engaging design seem like a luxury only accessible to companies with the biggest renovation budgets.
“Dim lights are producing dimwits,” remarks one researcher studying the connection between light and mental acuity.
Workers in 2018 may feel like they're back at their alma maters as companies redesign work spaces to cater to millennials.
It wasn’t too long ago CEOs spent days with their executive team to devise a five-year plan worthy of Wall Street. Today, five years is an eternity.
In total, the planned development is expected contain 65,000 square metres of office space, tripling Facebook's footprint in the capital.
Building and office design is changing from the ground up, from how we manage our HVAC systems to how our employees collaborate and work, Tangram Interiors’ Amanda Pierce tells GlobeSt.com.
Martínez, a consumer-goods practice-area leader at Gensler, chats with Metropolis editor-in-chief, Avinash Rajagopal, about not being afraid to experiment in office design.
Scott Delano, design director at Wright Heerema Architects, believes that designers and architects need to be responsible for stopping the sameness that plagues office space design and offers several ways to create a space that is truly differentiated.
The modern office should be an active workspace where culture drives functionality and employee health is as central to the tenets of work as is job performance.
The design of a space is not like a magic wand. The brand, the motivation and the reason why are either part of an organization’s DNA or not.
Working remotely outside my home–whether in a coworking space or not–sometimes means not knowing where I’ll be working every day, and it’s stressful having to think about which hardware I need to take with me (keyboards, DVI adapters, chargers).
