Several decades ago, cubicle farms led creative workplace trends. Corporate America’s workforce was largely defined by the quantity of human capital spurring maximum personnel per square foot.
5 Essential Design Trends for Every Creative Workplace
The Eight Zones Of The Ideal Office
In a study that investigates how the design of offices could enhance productivity, the Mayo Clinic built a “Well Living Lab” to compare the productivity of employees in one environment compared to another. The results highlighted interesting impacts of certain environmental factors.
3 Ways University And Office Design Are Converging
Workplaces across the globe are becoming more collaborative, technologically sophisticated and departmentally integrated to foster innovation and attract talent.
Office Envy: Inside Fast-Growing Relativity’s Expanding Loop Space
Two years ago, Relativity decided to remove cubicles for its staffers, because the employees and management found them to be “very limiting."
Air pollution is bad for productivity, even in office jobs
For individual companies, investing in air filters might improve the productivity of indoor workers enough to pay for the devices and add to the bottom line (not to mention potentially reducing health care costs).
Herman Miller’s new Aeron chair is an office spy, collecting data on your every move
Smart offices are a relatively, if not entirely, novel idea. They’re in many ways a logical extension of the interest in smart homes, which has given rise to connected versions of all kinds of appliances.
Amazon CTO Says Voice Interface Is Ready for Work
Alexa will be able to control the environment, help people find directions, book a room, report an issue, or find transportation
Sound advice on workplace design
Thoughtful design, paired with a change management program to educate staff, can both enhance connectivity and minimize distractions.
How To Take Advantage Of Hot Office Trends If You’re Not A Big-Shot Developer With A Fancy New Scheme
It is easy for large office owners and developers to embrace the most cutting-edge trends when it comes to technology, data, design and wellness.
Office Of The Future: Amenities, Open And Private Space, But Maybe Not All The Tech Bells And Whistles
Common-area amenities are an important thrust of new office design, covering a wide range of spaces, such as conference rooms, tenant lounges, gyms and game rooms.
Outfitting an Office Space On Trend, On Time and On Budget is Easier Than You Think
The biggest client pain point is, unsurprisingly, that furnishing an entire office costs a lot of money, and often the invoices contain hundreds of individual line items, making them difficult to understand.
What your office tells you about your company's culture
Offices Get Redesigned for an Instagram World
In pursuit of younger workers, companies have spent the past decade adding perks like craft beer on tap or a pool table that employees can lounge around. Now they want to make sure people outside the office know about all the fun.
Schools aren’t doing enough to prepare children for collaborative working life
55 percent of people working in education who took part in the survey believe that not enough is done to provide students with collaboration skills.
NXT Office: JLL Launches VR Tool For Office Space Searchers
Clients move with easy between and within the potential new office buildings via a virtual experience that lets them see what the spaces would be like.
New Research: Natural Light May Improve Office Productivity
Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back
The clearest instance of how much of a problem it is? People put on headphones all the time. Headphones have become the new walls.
Another new survey underscores that skilled workers can pretty much live wherever they want
A separate workforce study — also published recently by a flexible-hiring company, also in concert with an independent third party — reported that telecommuting is most common among management positions, with professional, scientific and technical services industries featuring the highest percentage of telecommuters relative to their share of the workforce.
Well Buildings Are Becoming More Than A Fad As Benefits Get Easier To Measure
Some of what constitutes a WELL building comes down to the hardware of air filtration systems and window design, while some of it comes down to offering healthy food, opportunities for breaks between meetings or educational programmes for the tenant.
DATA AND DESIGN: FINDING THE STRATEGIC NEEDLE IN AN OVERWHELMING HAYSTACK
Data collection in the workplace and its impact on designers and end users continues to trend as the next step in understanding the built environment and informing the design process.