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.
Watch Lew Epstein, General Manager of Coalesse and Turnstone, as he answers 5 questions in 5 minutes on the future of informal, shared spaces in a post-COVID workplace. Spoiler alert - they're here to stay.
As offices begin to plan for the future, communal spaces—which had been in very high demand before the pandemic—are a big question mark.
In the years preceding the pandemic, open floor plans grew in popularity. However, after the crisis, employee safety will be the first consideration.
Office spaces will become a hive of activity in the future as more businesses embrace office designs which promote innovation, creativity and team collaboration, predicts commercial real estate advisors Colliers International.
If designers want to take the lead in shaping the post-pandemic office, they need to embrace ideas that are not accepted by the mainstream yet.
Companies like Salesforce created workplaces with all the comforts of home. But now they may feel more like hospitals.
While the pandemic has accelerated a widespread acceptance of remote work, it won’t make buildings obsolete.
Woods Bagot has created four proposals for workplace design following coronavirus that merge working from home and office life to "strengthen culture and performance".
The standard linear rows of desks and chairs that many of us are familiar with make physical distancing difficult, so a new approach is needed
The pandemic has forced us to rethink the way we work and given us a lesson in what is really important.
In a world of heightened sensitivity, designers who pay attention to workers’ sensory intelligence will create environments where people can thrive.
Demand for office space may see a huge decrease once stay-at-home orders are lifted, according to a new survey by Global Workplace Analytics.
Since 2010, demand for four- and five-star offices has grown at four times the rate of that for three-star properties and 19 times the rate of that for one- and two-star offices, according to CoStar.
Of 155 architects interviewed, 72% of those agreed that they felt data privacy requirements were 'inconvenient' to office design.
In order to ensure progress and resilience moving forward, we must emphasize that disruption can be a powerful force for change.”
Employee safety will be more important than ever in the offices we return to, but so will social connection and collaboration.
In a post-pandemic world, the Silicon Valley standard office perks of all-you-can-eat buffets and high-tech gyms are no longer very workable—not with social-distancing in place.
A new Gensler report found than at least half of the 2,300-plus respondents said they’d need stronger policies against coming to work sick, increased opportunities to work from home, and an uptick in office cleaning.
