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.
A study found that workers in open offices (where there are no partitions between desks, or the partitions are low enough to see over while seated) were over 30% more active while at the office than people working in private offices, on average.
Most offices are left empty overnight, but is there a way to put these spaces to productive use, even as the main workforce is elsewhere. Steve Lang is a director in Savills commercial research team, and he has an answer.
No longer just a restful oasis, breakout spaces now need seating that can work for both relaxation and work zones.
The quality of the coffee is the most important feature for office occupants, with two thirds of workers saying a decent flat white or cappuccino is an essential for a productive and engaged workforce.
The drab office designs of the 1980s and 1990s continue to infect the modern office of today, turning off millenials and hurting worker productivity in the process.
Today’s standout workplaces, as evidenced by this Manhattan financial-services office, combine the best of conservative culture and startup loosey-goosiness.
Ted Moudis Associates‘ Workplace Strategist Kate Wieczorek shares her thoughts on the recent Harvard study examining the effects of the open plan.
As the U.S.’ largest generational cohort becomes the majority of the American workforce, architects and designers are working to answer a single question: What do millennials want?
What are the latest trends in designing office spaces for tech companies? Shannon Gaffney of SkB Architects shares her experience in the field and sheds light on some of the freshest and most popular concepts in workplace design.
If you’ve looked around your office, it’s likely you’ve noticed a fair amount of age demographic diversity.
The five recipients of Shaw Contract 2018 Design Awards have been announced, and a key trend revealed itself in the winning designs: the influence of the home.
So, critics of open plan workspace, let’s not be having all this negativity without a constructive offering too.
There are many misconceptions about sustainable office design—with one of the most common myths being that eco-friendly offices can't be as good looking.
When Modsy set out to design its own office, the company had recently raised $2.8 million in seed funding and was determined to stay frugal.
What is the future of work? This million-dollar question, which has kept the industry guessing for years, was recently asked to an unsuspected audience – a group of 50 children.
No one wants to listen to colleagues’ conversations with significant others or hear Chris Brown blaring off Spotify at top volume while they’re trying to get some work done.
From building community centers to office spaces, governments and companies have been turning to so-called design thinking to shape experiences for the better.
With today’s office furniture ranging from the gimmicky to the purely functional, the style that companies opt for sends visual cues about their brand, not to mention impacting on office ambiance and employee productivity.
