Designed by the architects at Mecanoo, these mobile work spaces look downright utopian.
Life After the Death of the Office: Avoiding Ubiquitous Workplace Design in a Tired Market
Thanks to cloud computing and Skype, there’s less need for a physical office, but the urge to transmit corporate culture and values persist.
I want to work in these cubicles of the future
The design studio Rapt has created two wild concepts for a futuristic cubicle, involving robots and . . . non-toxic fog.
SENSITIVE SUBJECT: WORKPLACE SENSORS AND AUTOMATION
With organizations that use them often being accused of Big Brother-style surveillance, workplace sensors are as controversial as they are pervasive. But what insight can they provide the design community?
Watch: Jamie Hodari: A Better Way to Workplace as a Service (WaaS)
Jamie Hodari, CEO of workplace provider Industrious, describes the latest office strategy: Workplace as a Service (Waas).
New Study Finds Millennials Care Most About Workplace Design (Plus Tips For Making Them Happier)
With the average American working 40+ hours a week, and entrepreneurs working often 2 to 3 times more, it’s important to understand how a physical workspace affects mental workspace.
Why It Pays To Have ‘Well-Connected’ Lighting In Your Building
As more companies incorporate wellness techniques into their corporate cultures to attract employees, office spaces must aid in that mission.
Flexible office market to grow by a third each year for next five years
The gig economy has helped lead to the doubling in size of the flexible office space sector since 2014.
Will technology prove a threat or a godsend in the new workplace?
Office Agriculture: A New Employee Wellbeing Concept
As people work longer hours and in more intense ways, many organizations are seeking to support employee wellbeing in the office.
A new age of reason for workplace design and management
When it comes to workplace design, the idea of beauty (or at least attractiveness) seems pretty important even when it can’t be measured.
The office of the future? No desks, no chairs
If the future of work is remote work, why do we need office furniture, whether a desk or a sofa? Why show up to a workspace at all, for that matter?
Watch: Hygge in the Workplace
Managers, make your meetings more productive by changing the physical layout
People love to complain about meetings. They’re often pointless, and attendees feel like there is always more important work they can do in its place.
Happiness at work: Lessons from home
Thanks to technology and mobility, our work has come home with us. So it’s only fair that home should come to work, right?
Forget FaceTime, Let’s Gear It For Face-To-Face Time
How Coworking Can Help Architects Reassert The Importance of Design
While tech-driven workplaces present new opportunities, if architects fail to show how design shapes workers' performance, then architecture could easily loose its relevance.
Vitra’s Raphael Gielgen predicts the future of the office
By constantly seeking to unlock the future of the workplace, Gielgen serves the Vitra team with the results of his observations, trend clusters, market analysis and business cases.
