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.
Flexibility is rocking the foundations of the traditional commercial real estate world. It’s entering our workforces, our offices and the shock waves are extending to the relationship between landlord and tenant.
A new question is being asked, which challenges assumptions on the role of corporations in public life. Why have a home when you can live at work?
Ubiquitous communication technology has eliminated the constraints of time and location with regards to ability and opportunity for interaction and knowledge exchange.
Hawkins\Brown and JLL have concluded that there is significant value to be gained from the adaptation of large scale industrial buildings to contemporary work space.
Today’s broadcast projects work to develop deeper meaning and storytelling potential, and a modern workplace can do the same thing.
Refurbished industrial sheds are increasingly in demand as companies across technology and creative sectors seek out the versatility offered by these ultra-large, adaptable workspaces.
I thought a fluid, open office space plan sounded great for collaboration and communication, but a few months in, I’m growing wary of hot desking.
A common driver of many workplace design projects is to create an environment that supports an organization's innovation and growth priorities.
Open workplaces are interesting in that they symbolize collaboration and communication, but they also have to provide spaces to actually get work done.
65% of Generation Zers think a fun environment is essential for a good company culture vs only 22% of Baby Boomers.
Researchers estimate that between one-third and one-half of the population is made up of introverts, yet our workplaces seem to increasingly favor extroverts.
Workplaces are constantly in flux as a matter of necessity, but is it time we transform the way we work based on activity rather than hierachy?
A definitive mindset shift is underway—more companies are not only recognizing the value of the key role the workplace plays in enabling the workforce, they are also investing in environments with budgets reshaped in alignment with that value.
Whatever you make of the current and frankly un-nuanced debate about open plan offices (one of the latest pieces of research suggests they may be better for us than private offices) we have all been here before.
Kenneth Freeman of Ambius shares how to effectively reap the benefits of biophilic design in the workplace.
