Millions of office workers were driven out of their workplaces this spring by the coronavirus, and many are still working from home.
Landlords And Wellness Experts Mobilizing To Revamp Buildings, Standards
Containing office costs in the post-lockdown era
What 10 Million Square Feet of Data Tells Us About Social Distancing in the Workplace
As pandemic restrictions, ease, and employers across the world return to the workplace, internal real estate and facilities teams are facing a growing list of variables to consider.
AI Accelerates Safe Workspace Reopenings
Nomad Go’s HealthySpaces is an AI-based solution that accelerates the safe and trusted reopening of any physical environment including office, hospitality and food service, retail, and education.
Workplace design and the corrective force of rediscovery
Both historically and currently workplace designers and managers have sought ways to improve the flows of information and people around a building.
How Office Buildings Can Accommodate the New Way We Work
Staggering shift schedules or making an office accessible 24/7 seems easy enough conceptually, but they actually create quite a few problems for buildings, especially when it comes to safety and accessibility.
Are hotels facing a downward spiral of death?
More bad news for the hotel space: another $144 million in missed debt payments this month, this time courtesy of Ashford Hospitality Trust. The loans in question pertain to a portfolio of eight hotels.
Office Space Demand Expected to Drop 10-15% as More People Work From Home
The End of Open-Plan Everything
For companies that make products for spaces that have suddenly fallen into disuse—restaurants, hotels, offices—pivoting to partitions has helped them continue to cut paychecks to engineers, designers, manufacturers, and salespeople.
Google employees will work from home until at least summer 2021
That makes parent company, Alphabet, the first major U.S. company to push its comeback into the second half of next year.
Nonresidential building spending projected to decline this year and next
Commercial buildings slated to see the bulk of the downturn; slowdown for institutional facilities predicted to be relatively modest.
Research that Drives Future Innovation
With remote work becoming the new norm, many professionals in the interiors industry have raised a red flag, signaling the importance of one key missing element in the design process—collaboration.
Defensible Space: Building Community In The Post-COVID Office
Angie Lee of FXCollaborative explores how defensible spaces in the office can preserve essential personal connections.
Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All
Projects take longer. Collaboration is harder. And training new workers is a struggle. ‘This is not going to be sustainable.’
Could Herman Miller And Logitech G’s $1500 Gaming Chair Become The Next Big Trend In Esports?
AIA: Billings Remain Down but Stable in June
“Unfortunately, conditions at firms with a commercial/industrial specialization are likely to remain weak for an extended period of time, until hospitality, office and retail facilities can fully reopen, and design demand for this space begins to increase."
The Future Of Work Is From Anywhere, at Anytime
In the modern workplace, new technology and applications are appearing every day, enabling streamlined processes and improved productivity that boosts the bottom line.
AIA's Consensus Construction Forecast Projects Decline in Nonresidential Project Spending Through 2021
The downward trend, which is expected to hit the commercial sector the hardest, will end "an almost decade-long expansion in construction spending."
That ‘Home Office’ of Yours? It Needs an Upgrade
Continuing to work from your bed or the dining table is unlikely to be very productive, or feel very professional, in the long term.
Watch: Alberto Meda’s ‘AM’ chair for Vitra is an economical tool for today’s office needs
Alberto Meda has designed the ‘AM’ chair for Vitra as an ergonomic tool for today’s office needs. combining engineering skill, quality design, and experience, the chair features dynamic armrests and a height-adjustable back. Its slender plastic frame is complete with a fabric or mesh cover that bestows a sense of lightness.