The founder of office furniture company Vari talks about dealing with crises, how workspaces will adapt to the new normal and recovering from business losses.
Watch: The Future of Workspaces according to Vari
Amenities at the Edge: Where the Workplace Meets the Street
By approaching the design of these public-private spaces in thoughtful, dynamic ways, companies can shift public perceptions of their internal operations and affect change at a scale much larger than the spaces themselves.
A New Standard Helps Create Confidence That It’s Safe to Return
The Well Health-Safety Rating developed by IWBI offers third party verification of health and safety features as buildings begin to reopen to the public.
How COVID-19 Is Shaping Democracy In The Workplace
Does the workplace of today reflect our societal values? Is COVID-19 helping to slow or advance the democratization of the workplace? In comparing today’s workplace to that of 50 years ago, the contrast is dramatic and telling.
Get used to the idea of work as an experience rather than a place
Activities critical to collective work processes, such as problem-solving and idea-sharing, are best supported in the office, whereas activities that require acoustic privacy are, frankly, better catered for at home.
15 Reasons Why the Office Matters
The New Digital Office Experience
Digital transformation of any industry aims beyond just making digitizing current processes and practices. It involves rethinking the products and processes from the ground up with the customer experience as the north star.
Privacy Furniture In The Post-COVID-19 Workplace
Remote work has lasted longer than most of us intended, and it is likely that companies will continue to allow their employees work from home through 2021.
COVID-19 Pandemic Underscores the Importance of Healthy Buildings
The Science Behind Healthy Workplaces
Working in Buildings With People
The Office Environment: Which Workplace Designs Are Helping Create The Offices Of The Future?
Updating a workplace to incorporate the latest design trends can provide multiple benefits to just about any business.
Equity, Interrupted: How a Return to the Office Is Needed to Rebuild Equity
Several large brands have been in the news lately suggesting that they intend to move entirely to a work-from-home model. They point to the growing sophistication of virtual collaborative platforms like Zoom or Teams as proof that remote work can be effective.
Is UV light safe? The truth about disinfecting air
Far UV-C as a method for disinfecting pathogens has many possibilities. But it has also led to some premature and potentially risky uses.
Goodbye, Open Office. Hello, ‘Dynamic Workplace.’
With their headquarters largely empty amid the pandemic, tech companies are reconfiguring their open-plan spaces to appeal to employees when they return, with opportunities for collaboration and focus workers can’t get at home.
The future of the office: Covid-19 has forced a radical shift in working habits
Self-styled visionaries and people particularly fond of their pajamas have for decades been arguing that a lot of work done in large shared offices could better be done at home.
'Fog of War' Clouding Assumptions on Returning to Office, Expert Says
A Q&A with Savills’ Doane Kelly reveals that knee-jerk reactions to office occupancy, while understandable, won’t prevail once things clear up regarding the lasting effects of the pandemic.
Building Lobbies Are Now the First Line of Defense Against COVID-19
One of the biggest unknowns about how to stop the spread of a disease in a building is how we can prevent sick people from entering the building in the first place.
Planning for the Future Workplace and a Distributed Workforce
The lessons learned from the recent collective work-from-home experiment will play a critical role in guiding the journey back to the workplace across the globe. Because of the health crisis, companies are strategically rethinking everything about the office as we once knew it — from the physical space to the protocols, people, and organizational culture that define it.
Are offices dead? Not yet, but real estate power brokers are betting on a new strategy
Alums of real estate juggernauts Cushman & Wakefield and JLL are betting that the future of commercial real estate lies in not just selling office space, but designing and building it, too.