Right now, technology is all about how companies can connect their people around the world and especially around their own campus.
WATCH: DisruptCRE NYC: The State of Building Technology
How Office Design Decisions Make Or Break Your Budget
Chicago-based JLL decided firms contemplating change need more precise information and it just completed its new office fit out guide.
Bay Area Still Leads in Workplace Transformation
Competition among tech companies to attract and retain the most talented employees has also fueled a steady evolution of what can be expected in today’s workplace culture and physical spaces, for both office and R&D environments.
How to design a healthier and happier workplace
Gorgeous renovation turns old steam factory into modern office space
INTERVIEW WITH STEELCASE’S CHRISTINE CONGDON
Steelcase’s Christine Congdon, Director of Global Research and Editor of 360 Magazine shares her thoughts on the rise of the ‘Creature Comforts’ trend in the contract furniture market.
There will be little privacy in the workplace of the future
“Every aspect of business is becoming more data-driven. There’s no reason the people side of business shouldn’t be the same."
How your workplace can help win the talent war
For more than a decade, the Gensler Research Institute has studied the relationship between workplace design and business outcomes.
Survey: These are the biggest distractions in the workplace
While open office spaces can have perils all their own, you don’t necessarily have to work in one to get distracted at work.
“HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE”: THE REAL PROBLEM BEHIND WORKPLACE NOISE
There’s a reason coworking spaces are popular among remote and home workers; we are social creatures and we crave that social interaction.
Activity-Based Workspaces
Activity-based workspaces are all the rage right now, and rightfully so; there is a plethora of benefits to this style.
The Rise of EGD: Defining the Workplace Experience
There are so many ways to utilize a company’s built environment to tell the story of their history, culture, products, and services: what they do and why they do it.
HOK’s Andrew McMullan Discusses Designing Healthy Workplaces
London-based Senior Project Designer Andrew McMullan shares strategies for designing the workplace to promote the health and well-being of employees.
Old San Francisco horse stable gets mod office makeover
One of the world's biggest companies found the secret to better meetings: a wooden box
Called the iBox, it sits at the center of the conference table. Before meetings start, executives mute their smart phones and deposit them in the box.
Booking.com’s Orlando Office Illustrates Trend of Workspaces Designed to Attract, Retain Employees
The Orlando Business Journal looks at how employee input shaped HOK’s design of Booking.com’s new workplace, which won the paper’s Coolest Office Spaces competition.
It’s time for companies to ditch big corporate campuses
Once tech companies grow even larger, like Google or Facebook, they build huge headquarters and then create large satellite offices around the world, almost always in the downtown business districts of already-successful global cities.
THREE KEYS TO DIGITAL WORKPLACE ECOSYSTEM SUCCESS
Next-generation digital workplace ecosystems will place human engagement, technology and agility first.
If These Walls Could Talk: Reinvigorate Your Workplace Culture Through Your Branded Environment
Change is affecting businesses faster than ever before, forcing companies to reevaluate how they work and the value they place on work itself. But change can also affect your workplace environment.
WITH 5 GENERATIONS AT WORK TOGETHER, FLEXIBLE WORKSPACES COULD BE A BLESSING TO COMPANIES
Workplace design today is about much more than designing a pretty picture. Companies and individuals are seeking culture and community when they see office space.