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.
Architects and designers have joined over a million people around the world in posting a black square to Instagram in solidarity with those protesting for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in police custody.
If social distancing and remote work are to remain, it will have a profound impact on how we occupy space and how we work together moving forward.
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.
Peter Pepper Protection Systems provide space-saving solutions to create separate working space in open-plan office, conference, lobby, healthcare, education, retail and public spaces.
While the virus will end at some date, its effects will last much longer, noted Messaging Architects.
Despite doubling eCommerce sales, HNI domestic workplace furnishings sales fell 35 percent quarter-to-date (April and May).
While much of the business has been in smaller scale or sit-to-stand desks with laptop-friendly work surfaces, home office resources said they also continue to do some business in larger executive office suites.
Surveyed workers also reported that collaborating and staying informed on team members’ activities is more challenging to do while working outside of the office.
Manufacturers face higher prices as they ramp up production to serve businesses seeking added protections for workers, customers. Furniture maker Steelcase Inc. is selling cardboard screens that can be used as temporary office barriers.
Staying on top of the science and letting the dust settle before investing in what might be expensive, short-term, or short-sighted solutions is probably the smartest thing employers can do.
For office owners and property managers, now’s the time to think further ahead: what support, skills and services will these occupiers need from us when they do return?
“Chair Times” charts a course through an ocean of chairs. In the focus are 125 objects from the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Arranged according to their year of production, they illustrate the development from 1807 to the very latest designs straight off the 3D printer, forming a timeline for modern seating design.
The company's head of global real estate says that Microsoft isn't in any rush to get employees back into offices. But when they do return the goal is to work in team rooms and "neighborhoods," with appropriate social distancing.
Unquestionably, COVID-19 has dramatically changed the way we work and our concept of the workplace. But the question that businesses are now wrestling with is, how those changes will affect offices as they reopen?
