The Future of Work 2024 / Now leasing: apartments in Goldman’s old HQ / Why interior and fashion brands are collaborating more than ever / AI makes work more bearable, HP survey says / Andreu World Opens New Showroom in Toronto / Revived Return to Office Push Spurs Silicon Valley Trades / Flex space has now become a mainstream property strategy / New Collaborative Design Showroom in NYC Features Synergistic Designs / The CRE Problem for Cities Isn't Office, It's Everything / Flex Operators Look To Expand As Occupancy And Lease Lengths Hold Up / 10.5% Of Prime-Age U.S. Men Are Choosing Not To Work / Why We Have to Rethink Indoor Air Quality Policies in the Workplace / Flex Spaces Are Taking Over London’s Business Scene / Hybrid Hazard: Avoiding the Together-Alone Dilemma / 79% of Flex Office Providers Plan to Expand in The Next Two Years / and much more…

MillerKnoll Stock Slides 14.47% on First Quarter Results / Steelcase Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2025 Results: Sales Flat / ABI August 2024: Architecture firm billings continue to decline / Springboard Working Surfaces is now Fellowes / Amazon employees furious about the end of remote work / San Francisco On Pace For Best Year For Office Leasing Since 2019 / Maharam in London, Los Angeles, and New York / D.C.-Based Interiors Practice HYL Joins Global Design Firm Perkins&Will / Office Leasing Activity Expected to Continue Upward Climb Into Next Year / Most Cities See Gains In Office Absorption, But It Could Be Short-Lived / South Florida Leading the Country in Office Revival / Flexible Work Models Still Dominate Tech Industry / Study Shows Small Reduction In Smartphone Use Improves Work Motivation / Third of workers admit to faking productivity / Five key trends for future workplace design / and much more…

MillerKnoll Announces New Global Hubs in New York and London / Virco Reports Improved Financial Position Following Record Second Quarter and First Half Results / DIRTT Announces Promotion of Richard Hunter to President and Chief Operating Officer / Study Shows Federal Coworking Program Could Save U.S. Government Millions / Increased Office Visits Don't Make Up for High Vacancy Rates / Brookfield Predicts Robust Office Recovery And Market Rebound / 64% of U.K. Companies No Longer Hiring For Remote Work / Converting Office to Industrial Space is Picking Up Steam / Mondays in the office are making a comeback, Bevi report says / WeWork Survey Reinforces the Future is Flex as Business Leaders Say the Office is Critical for Profitability and Culture / Traditional models of facilities management are no longer fit for purpose, report claims / Is Office Space a Cost Center or Value Driver? / Commercial furniture gets a makeover amid return to work policies / and much more…

Work from home is killing the U.S. commercial real estate market / Coworking Spaces Cheaper Than Office Leases In 97% Of U.S. Cities, Study Confirms / Gunlocke Unveils Brand Refresh / Employers who downsized office space say they now need to expand with hybrid work / Manhattan Offices Set Post-Pandemic Visitation Record / Will Offices Come Back In Fashion? Contrarian Buyers Are Betting Millions On It / How Air Conditioning Took Over the American Office / AI Can’t Design Your Office, but It Can Help You Score It / Remote Work Doesn’t Have To Be Hard According To This CEO / How Large, Adaptable Multi-Purpose and Event Spaces Are Transforming the Financial Services Workplace / How to Create a Multigenerational Workplace / Boutique Offices Emerge as Strong Option for Tenants Seeking Less Space / and much more…

The Collective Acquires Leading Teknion Dealer Ergoworks / Hybrid Work Grows as 75% of Leaders Plan Greater Flexibility in the Next 2 Years / 18.1 Million Americans Are Now Digital Nomads / Is 2025 the Beginning of the Office Turnaround? / New Data Proves It’s Not All Doom and Gloom for the Office Market / Silicon Valley Office Campus Trades at Steep Discount / Office Market Woes Lead to Fire Sale in Chicago Loop / Index Shows 1 In 6 U.S. Office Buildings Are Strong Candidates For Residential Conversion / Rents Tick Up While Concessions Decrease For Best-In-Class Office / In Proptech, Is Out of the Office the New In the Office? / Half of workers want to find a new job in the next year / This Company Implemented A Hyper-Flexible Work Model (And It’s Actually Working) / People want the flexibility of hybrid work, but don't want to go fully remote / The Invisible Workplace / and much more…

ABI July 2024: Firm billings decline at modestly slower pace / Companies Hope Making Offices Like Hotels Will Lure Workers Back / The Pandemic Is History, but for Architects, Its Impact on Office Design Remains / Office Demand is Growing But H2 Employment Concerns Loom / A Manhattan Office Tower Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount / Goldman Sachs Real Estate Head: U.S. Markets ‘Now Bottoming Out’ / Office Market May Be Nearing Bottom, Says Moody's / Almost 63% Of DFW Workers Have Returned To The Office, But Some Areas Fare Better Than Others / U.K. Pushes for Flexible Work and "Right to Disconnect" to Improve Workforce Productivity / How Flexible is The Future of Work? 25%, 50% or 100%? / How 'alonement' at work is creating spaces for the modern smoke break / and much more…

HNI Corporation Reports Strong Q2 2024 Financial Performance and Strategic Growth / Jenna Geigerman promoted to President/COO of Hightower / US Business Activity Expands by Most in More Than Two Years / Insider Sale: SVP, CFO David Sylvester Sells 75,000 Shares of Steelcase Inc / AdvisorEY Launches Workplace Strategy Division / ABI June 2024: Business conditions remain soft at architecture firms / Office Chair and Couch Demand Is Back. That’s Good for One Furniture Maker. / US Office Sales Rose 22% In First Half of 2024 / Future Of Federal Office Use Still Uncertain As Election Approaches / DC Office Market Sees More Leasing Activity in Q2 / Return-to-office mandates were meant to make workers quit / Second Great Resignation Could Emerge as Workers Seek Higher Pay, Remote Work / Office attendance levels continue to rise across Europe / The A, B, C’s of Working Outdoors / and much more…

The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You’re Still on Zoom / MillerKnoll Earns ‘Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion’ status in the 2024 Disability Equality Index / Spring Studios, Herman Miller, and A24Say “Print Isn’t Dead” / Office Still a Tale of Two Markets / Philly Office Vacancy Is Down — But Only Because Conversions Are Taking A Big Bite / ‘We Won’t Have Enough Office Space’: No Quality To Fly To As Construction Pipeline Runs Dry / Philadelphia’s Full-time RTO Mandate Upheld, Sets Legal Precedent / New Deliveries Begin To Test Miami’s Office Success Story / Denver's Office Market Shows Signs Of Recovery As Absorption Turns Positive / Why more architects are becoming real estate developers / Flexible Office Space Demand Reaches New Heights in the U.K. / Dell Hits “Near-Zero” Morale After Return-to-Office Mandate / Law Firms Reduce Space While New Efficiencies Unclear / and much more…

Is Google about to enter the office seating market? / An American-Japanese Success Story: Ultrafabrics at 25, Celebrating a quarter century of textile innovation / BOS Holdings Announces Acquisition of Leading Corporate Signage Firm / Office vacancy has hit yet another high / Silicon Valley Office Vacancy Stabilizes, Leasing Stalls / Google Renews A San Francisco Office Lease For 54% Less Space / Net Effective Rents Drop To Single Digits For Some Chicago Buildings Thanks To Record Concessions / Occupancy in Older Office Buildings Drops as Tenants Flock to New Builds / Layoffs, Remote Work Push San Francisco Class-A Office Vacancy To New Record / White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now / Millennial and Gen Zers would take pay cuts for time with pets / Office life has changed. How are firms responding? / New Metrics Define Office Success in Hybrid Work World / Showing up to work late is more accepted in new hybrid arrangements / and much more…

Teknion Debuts [In]Studio, A Hub of Inspiration, Collaboration, and Investigation / We Discuss Why Steelcase Inc.'s CEO Will Find It Hard To Get A Pay Rise From Shareholders This Year / Fully-Remote Companies Have Higher Turnover Rates / Surge in Remote Work Fuels Cross-Metro Employment Boom / Goldman Sachs Says Office Markets Have Bottomed / 'It's Not Getting Any Better': Contractions, Distress Dim D.C. Office Recovery Hopes / Manhattan Office Leasing Rebounds in Q2 / Bernhardt’s CEO: ‘Furniture is a fashion business’ / Feel Good Friday: The benefits of having dogs at work - OnOffice / Analysis | Downtown Offices Are Toxic. Suburban Ones Are Surviving / Knoll recolors some Bauhaus classics / and much more…

MillerKnoll Sales Slide as New Orders Inch Up / PARIC Holdings Acquires Corporate Concepts to Join its I3 Group / ABI May 2024: Business conditions at architecture firms continue to soften / US Office Vacancy Rates Likely to Rise by 2026 / House Bill Calls for Increased Office Space Reporting, Limits on Telework / Empty Offices Risk Wiping Out $250 Billion in Commercial Property Value / Apple Halts Work On $1B Campus, Following Other Tech Titans / 8% Of U.S. Office Buildings Are Taking Basically All The Tenant Activity / AI Firms Drive San Francisco’s Office Leasing Activity As Vultures Swoop In / Once a Strong Bet, Renovating Offices Now Looks Riskier / 76% of U.K. Businesses Are Seeking New Workspaces This Year / and much more…

Steelcase Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2025 Sales Fall but Orders Increase / Hooker Furnishings Positions Itself for Contract & Hospitality Growth / Prostoria makes its US Debut by Opening a Flagship Store in Chicago / Humanscale Opens the Waitlist for Freedom 25th Anniversary Signature Edition / San Francisco Is on the Brink of a Revival, Fueled by AI, Innovators, and Investors / Rise of remote work leading to longer commutes in US, study claims / Energy Company Consolidations Likely To Ramp Up Houston’s Office Vacancy / Dell’s RTO Policy Failure: Workforce Choosing Remote Work Over Promotions / Gen Z Voted Worst Generation To Work With In Newsweek Poll / Two thirds of remote workers suffer from something called productivity anxiety / No Flexible Work Options? European Job Seekers Say “No, Thanks” / and much more…

Steelcase Commits to a Net-Zero Future by 2050 / Kimball International Announces Grand Opening of New NYC Showroom Location / Why Herman Miller brought back its company magazine / Steelcase and Logitech Introduce Extended Reality Experience Ocular™ View / Buyers Snap Up Aging and Empty Office Buildings for Deep Discounts / Remote Work Levels Hit Lowest Point Since 2020 / Will AI Make The Five-Day Workweek History By 2033? All Signs Point To Yes / Gen Xers and Boomers More Likely to Work Full on-Site and Remote / What The Workplace Can Learn From Taylor Swift And U2 / A new generation of workplace apps is transforming people's experience of work / The Office Gets "Schooled" / Welcoming Workspaces: Hospitality's Influence on Modern Workplace Design / and much more…

Humanscale opens new ground floor showroom in Fulton Market that sets New Sustainability Standards / AIS Opens Beautiful Third Floor Showroom, Previews New Solutions, and Features Concepts in Development / Virco Reports 33.7% Increase in First Quarter Revenue / American Institute of Architects Under Scrutiny Amid Financial Distress / Silen Bridges US Launch / Federal Employees Push Back on Strict Return-to-Office Policies / Why Go To An Office? To Be Seen, Not Productive, Employees Say / How Gensler’s Product Sustainability Standards Are Making an Impact in the Industry / AI Can Turn Hours Of Architecture Work Into Seconds. But At What Cost? / London office market sees sharp decline in leasing activity / Chicago Wants to Enlist Remote Workers in Rescue of Downtown  / Long-Distance Work Commutes Make a Comeback / Can Your Workplace Help You Sleep Better? / The Napoleon of Your Living Room / and much more… 

HBF Unveils Layered, Lively Refresh in their NYC showroom / Economic Pressures Continue To Shrink Offices / Clerkenwell Design Week review  / CBRE: Artificial Intelligence To Take Big Bite Out Of Demand For Office Space / Office design is changing. Here's how to prepare for the next phase  / Chicago to Offer $150 Million in Subsidies for Office Space Conversion / Citigroup Mandates Full-Time Office Return for 600 Employees Amid Regulatory Changes / Invesco Betting On Office Comeback By Seeing 'How Much We Can Extract' From REITs / How companies are addressing rising office fit-out costs / Future-Proofing Workspaces: Top Tactics To Align CRE Choices With Business Needs / Thinking Of Switching To A Hybrid Work Model? Read This First / More Law Firms Opt to Relocate Instead of Renewing / Virginia Tops 2024 List of Best States for Remote Work / Trends to Watch: How Media Workplace Priorities Have Evolved in 2024 / Environments that Support Cultural Optimism and Resilience / and much more…

Layoffs coming in Hickory as furniture giant HNI to close plant / Office Resources, Inc. Expands Reach in Alabama with Acquisition of OFC Birmingham Operations / ABI April 2024: Pace of billings decline at architecture firms slows slightly / Design Holding rebrands itself to Flos B&B Italia Group / Citi, HSBC, Barclays Order More Staff to Work in Offices 5 Days a Week / Office Rents Plunge in San Francisco's Financial District / The Pursuit of Flexible Work is Leading People to Start Small Businesses in the U.S. / We’re Spending Billions on This Work-From-Home Indulgence / Organizations seek a digitally connected workplace but struggle with change management / Downtown Restaurants Find Remote Workers Return for Happy Hours / Is climate change making office air worse? / 5 Trends Influencing the Workplace / and much more…

Gensler Workplace Survey Shows the Impact of Office Collaboration / Senator Group's Colin Mustoe honored with lifetime achievement award / Material Bank’s new CEO is thinking beyond samples / Wayfair will open first large-format store in Chicago suburb / 2024 Survey Reveals Hybrid Work is the Preferred Work Environment Across 11 Countries / A multifunctional space in Tokyo for Andreu World / RTO Boosts Business Travel, Puts A Dent In Domestic Leisure Traffic As Hotel Demand 'Normalizes' / Firms are on the hunt for tech-savvy facilities managers / People are spending more time in the office, but no sign of a full return for many / How Workplaces in Tokyo Are Embracing Flexible Work / WTF is an unbossed culture? / Dell to penalize hybrid employees who don't work in the office enough / Deloitte Survey Reveals Purpose And Flexibility Key To Retaining Gen Z and Millennials / 'Lights, camera, action!': Movie-making techniques make it into hybrid conference rooms / and much more…