CFN's The Working Space | February 9, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | February 9, 2021

In This Issue:

The financial downside of remote: 75% of workers spent their own money to work from home

Kimball International Announces Launch of Alternative Design Podcast

7 Post-Lockdown Trends for UK Flexible Space

WFH’s Growing Impact on Home Sales

What Are the Long-Term Impacts of the Remote Work Revolution?

Medical-Grade Air Filtration, Touchless Everything: How Brookfield Properties Is Preparing For The Return To The Office

Will The Pandemic Kill Staples And Office Depot For Good?

U.S. Office Sector: The Road Ahead in 2021

Office Landlords Need to Beware of These Risks

Applying Software to the Workplace Experience Journey

3form Launches 3form Elements: Products for Today’s Workplace

The 360° Container by Magis is a clever storage solution for compact spaces

UNStudio and Delta Light Launch Luminary and Acoustic System Focused on Well-being

A New Approach to Activity-based Working

Community spaces benefit offices. Here’s a museum-like example by Adjaye Associates

Convention Season Heating Up In 2021, But Slow Vaccine Rollout Could Upend It Again

Jeremy Hoff Assumes Chief Executive Role at Hooker Furnishings

CFN's The Working Space | February 5, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | February 5, 2021

In This Issue:

The Secret to a Healthier 2021 May Be in How We Sit

Kimball Sales Fall 29% in the Second Quarter

Arper launches Design Lab project at corporate

Solomon Coyle Releases 2020-Q4 Market Outlook Report - Pipeline Activity Positive in all Regions for the First Time

SPACE takes on new challenges of workplace design

Older executives are coping with WFH challenges better than younger leaders

Nissan's Newest Concept Car Creates the Ideal Office With Everything You Need to Work Anywhere--Including a Herman Miller Chair

Airstream's new $100,000 trailer is a remote work paradise

Microsoft Viva: a new platform designed for the future of remote work

Companies take a wait-and-see approach to leasing office space

Self-Care For The Workplace

Moving Back Into an Office Space? Here's What to Look for in a Space

Moody's Predicts Record Vacancy Rate, Steep Drop In Office Rents This Year

Google To Resume Spending On Office Investment, Construction

GoSpace AI teams up with JLL to deliver a revolutionary occupancy management solution

Nearly Half of Workers in Dallas Are Back in the Office

A New Office Furniture System Creates a Modern Workplace Ecosystem and Unleashes People’s Potential

Otelier Height-Adjustable Tables Elevate the Standing Desk for Home

UNStudio and Delta Light Launch Luminary and Acoustic System Focused on Well-being

A high performer from Camira

A Video Game Studio Moves into New Office Built Like a City

Embodied carbon is the next big challenge for green building

Arcadia + Encore Appoints Allyn-Rae Group as Independent Sales Representatives for Florida

Amazon Reveals Evocative ‘Helix’ Tower, 3 New Office Buildings As Next Phase Of HQ2

CFN's The Working Space | February 2, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | February 2, 2021

In This Issue:

Some Ponder the Role of Office Furniture Going Forward

Mixed results for FDMC 300 in pandemic year

Steelcase Named One of the World’s Most Admired Companies

Vitra’s vision for future of office

Superstar Cities Are in Trouble

Home Office or Corporate Office: Where Is Everyone Going? How to Build a Hybrid Workplace

Studio O+A’s Toolkit Says Returning to the Office Can Be Joyful

Office design will respond to the events of the past year as it always has – by getting better

This startup lets you rent a backyard office from your neighbor

Home office works: Momentum only continues to build for the category

Knotel Files for Chapter 11 With Plans to be Acquired by Newmark

Office refurbishments underway as landlords lure tenants

We’ll Know This Year How Badly Office Was Hurt

Dauphin: Bosse Ion Cloud Eliminates Viruses and Bacteria

Cosmos from Scandinavian Spaces

New Arc-Com Pattern: Glinda

Nienkämper Selects KnollTextiles as Exclusive Graded-In Fabric Partner

Camira launches Camira StaySafe, an advanced textile treatment, effective against viruses and bacteria

Threefold Architects unveils a model for post-Covid co-working

Three questions for Mateo Kries

CFN's The Working Space | January 29, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 29, 2021

In This Issue:

Furniture's Role in Workspace Well-Being

HAT Collective, a New Brand Experience for the Contract Office Market, Launches in North America

Steelcase Earns Top Designation as "Best Place to Work" for LGBTQ Equality

Lead times are terrible. When will they get better?

Wellbeing, Culture and the Evolving Workplace

Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?

How Do You Enhance Resilience in the Workplace?

How office cleaning is going the extra mile

Productivity Of Remote Workers Could Determine The Fate Of The Office Market

WFH’s Sheen Wears Off for Some Large Companies

How Do You Enhance Resilience in the Workplace?

Jim Beam Owner Moving Headquarters To Manhattan

Office Demand in LA and San Francisco Rises for Two Very Different Reasons

AIA Praises the U.S. for Rejoining the Paris Agreement

Studio Irvine reworks the S 5000 for Thonet into a modular retreat for modern-day workspaces

Jon Grant London's 6-metre hot-desking table is made for both socializing and social distancing

Report: One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day

CFN's The Working Space | January 26, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 26, 2021

In This Issue:

Managing a Contract Furniture Manufacturing Business in Michigan during these Times is far from Easy

Kimball Launches Health Furnishings Brand, Interwoven

Humanscale Sets Up 1st Exclusive Showroom in Bengaluru, India

DIRTT announces completion of C$35 million convertible debenture bought deal financing

Herman Miller Appoints Cheryl Kern as Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Three H Furniture on ‘aggressive growth’ path with new CEO

Michigan Manufacturing Activity continues Expansion Trend

ABI December 2020: Architecture firm billings end the year on a sour note

Creating the Office of the Future

The Fundamental Need For Office Space Has Nothing To Do With Trends

The future of work is hybrid with a firm focus on employee

The Office Gets Agile

Sourcing for Commercial-Grade Home Office Setups

Buckley Gray Yeoman breathe new life into an 80s office building in Clerkenwell

Mustafa Afsaroglu of TS-DS studio on the future of homeworking

Landlords Boosting Tenant Concession Packages As Market Swings In Tenants' Favor

Hotels And Office Will Outperform Expectations Post-Pandemic, Willy Walker And Bruce Flatt Predict

The HON Company Introduces Cliq™ Collaborative Task Seating

‘An Oval that looks like America’: A tour of Biden’s new office

CFN's The Working Space | January 22, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 22, 2021

In This Issue:

Reports of the Demise of the Office are Greatly Exaggerated

Michael Ford and Herman Miller Reveal a Remixed Eames Lounge Chair for Discussing Real Change

Designing a Better Work Experience

New Data from Steelcase Shares the Highs and Lows of Working from Home and its Impact on the Future Workplace

Paradigm Shift Needed to Foster the New Creative Office

Empty office buildings are still devouring energy. Why?

How Do We Draw Employees Back To The Office?

The 10 Best Places to Live if You Work From Home

Step Inside Perkins Eastman Relocated Chicago Studio In The Rookery Building

Construction Starts Fall to Lowest Level in Five Years

New York City Still Seems 'Closed For Business' As CRE Challenges Mount

Industrial Boom Will Continue, Office Investment Will Return In 2021: Colliers Report

Clear Design Launches New Height-Adjustable Benching System

Allseating Launches T7 Arm for Task Seating

New Classics from Carl Hansen & Son

Herman Miller and Grace Foundation face masks fight slavery

CFN's The Working Space | January 19, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 19, 2021

In This Issue:

The Pros and Cons of Remote Work

Claridge Products Acquired by Skylark Private Equity

Global Furniture Group, USA awarded a group purchasing agreement with Premier.

Framery Proven to be Best in Sound Insulation According to New Industry Standard

2021 Nissan NV350 Office Pod Concept Makes Working From Home a Dream

Supporting Physical and Mental Health Through Design

More than 30 manufacturers release CET Designer Extensions in 2020

Whenever I hear the future of work, I reach for my pistol

The Future of Design: Material Evolution

How WeWork foresaw the end of the conventional office

The Post-Pandemic Office Must Reassess Its Workers' Needs

Studio Besau-Marguerre teams up with Vitra to design WorkLifeSpace in Hamburg’s Apartimentum

ESI Introduces New Monitor Arm Series and Desktop Charging Station

WallGoldfinger Furniture announces a new product line for the office environment

9am Debuts HALO, a Digital Height Adjustable Workstation for AIoT-Based Digital Transformation of the Workplace

Sarah Hossli brings inclusivity to the intergenerational office with modular seating

When office seating took over and what it all meant

CFN's The Working Space | January 15, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 15, 2021

In This Issue:

The Death of the Office Desk is Upon Us

Leland Refocuses Brand on “The Good Life”

Herman Miller Named to Newsweek’s List of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2021

OFS Awarded Prestigious WELL Certification At The Platinum Level

Reimagine: The new future of work to shape a better world

4 Remote-Work Elements Employees Will Crave in an In-Person Office

What does a boom in branded content mean for design media?

What will Replace the Desk

Design: Work experience

Work Better: Expanded Expectations for Wellbeing at Work

Offices For Healthy Living in 2021

Office design will respond to the events of the past year as it always has – by getting better

Eden office management platform rebrands to Eden Workplace

Creating A Hybrid Community Post-COVID-19

Work Better

Here’s What We Know About Office: De-densifying Is In

Green Standards

Coworking Provider MakeOffices Is Closing Down

New York Gov. Cuomo: Empty offices should become housing

Steelcase Dealer Forward Space unveils its new showroom in Milwaukee's Harbor District

Meet Arik Levy, Designer of Marien152

2021 Office Trend: In the non-face-to-face era, Three-D desk, a smart workstation for working from home, is in the spotlight

How this Tokyo office by Wonderwall tries to reinterpret Japanese aesthetics for today

Yet another The Office project has reached 10K on LEGO Ideas

CFN's The Working Space | January 12, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 12, 2021

In This Issue:

2020 Was The Manhattan Office Market's Worst Year This Century

Steelcase Named One of America’s Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek

Framery Recognized as Leading Innovators at 5th Annual Construction & Engineering Awards

Workplace Ecosystems of the Future

Leesman warns businesses of a looming crisis of trust in 2021

The best standing desks of 2021

The Future of Work in 2021: Our Top 10 Predictions

How One Furniture Brand Brings the Circular and Service Economies Together

How Will Our Homes Adapt to a Post-COVID World?

Microsoft Is Maneuvering To Build A Huge Atlanta Campus With Up To 15,000 Workers

Three North American Furniture Dealers Join Together to Form One: 'The Collective'

This modular workspace by Manchester-based design firm Arnie.M is designed for working from home

Create a More Meaningful Space With Artifox's Work From Home Collection

Kering Headquarters – Wayne, New Jersey

Sick of all your furniture? Soon you can trade-in your sofa

CFN's The Working Space | January 8, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 8, 2021

In This Issue:

Collaborative & Social Space Design After COVID-19

Allseating’s Levo and Innate Win 2020 GOOD DESIGN® Awards

The Importance Of Diversity & Inclusion In The Office Furniture Industry

You will hear a lot more about purpose, communication and rituals at work this year

Workplace With A Purpose: A New Generation Workspace

Trend Forecast: BuzziSpace's vision on the workplace in 2021 and beyond

Toolkit: What should post-COVID-19 spaces look like?

How We Worked Changed in 2020. This Year, How We Will Find Work Changes, Too

Remote Workers Choose New Homes for Many Reasons

How the Work From Home Trend Could Lose its Halo

Ditch the Zoom bookshelf: 4 tips from Jonathan Adler on how to create a home office you’ll love

Will large employers embrace coworking? LEXC owners weigh in

Manhattan Office Leasing Volume At Lowest Level in 20 years

Illinois-Based Rieke Office Interiors Finds Success in The Dallas-Fort

BIFMA Announces Director Health and Sustainability

JP Lounge by Davis

Iso Work Lounge Offers Diverse Styles for Defining Spaces

TrueStile Headquarters in Denver

EDspaces Acquired by Emerald for Future Growth and Sustainability

This $70 Desk Has Over 9,000 5-Star Amazon Ratings and Just Might Be the Ultimate WFH Solution

CFN's The Working Space | January 5, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | January 5, 2021

In This Issue:

Well, that happened.

Artemide founder Ernesto Gismondi dies at 89

HNI Corporation Announces Closing on Acquisition of Design Public Group

The work-from-home trend only building home office momentum

Paige Rense, Trendsetting Editor of Architectural Digest, Dies at 91

The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice

2021 Will See Workers Return, But Striking A Balance Between Safety And Efficiency Won't Be Easy

Independent Spirit: More Workers In COVID Economy Work For Themselves

Back to the office in 2021? Here are ten things that will have changed

Reimagining the Workplace After the Pandemic: Q&A

7 Reasons why 2021 will be even bigger and better for remote workers

The work-from-home world of COVID-19 turns office furniture industry upside down

Depending on the Industry, WFH May Be Approaching Saturation

Office Leasing Activity Rebounds at Year's End

Lyft Headquarters – San Francisco

Gyms aren’t coming back. Here’s how you’ll work out in the future

CFN's The Working Space | December 29, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 29, 2020

In This Issue:

Are You Sure You Want to Go Back to the Office?

Jack Lenor Larsen, Innovative Textile Designer, Dies at 93

2021 Trends: The Mobile Workplace

2021 Trends: Flexibility in the Workplace

2020 Insights Bring Success in 2021

Upsides To Lockdown And The Perks We Won’t Want To Part With

The pandemic could have crushed WeWork. It may have saved it instead.

2020 - Year of remote work in review

VergeSense raises $12M Series B for its workplace analytics service

The “Office-Pocalypse” Might Spark the Great Repurposing

Arrivals + Departures Offices – Toronto

Millions of face masks are discarded monthly. What if we turned them into furniture?

CFN's The Working Space | December 22, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 22, 2020

In This Issue:

How 2020 changed workplace design

DTC site Cayke offers a simplified way to buy office furniture

Dealer Workscapes Signs Lease for New Offices in Tampa

Why being stuck at home drains your creativity

As A Brutal Year Ends, 4 Flexible Office Companies Hit The Rocks

VMware goes remote — follows a similar move taken by Dropbox

Here's How Much Office Users Worldwide May Shrink Their Footprints

The Best Office Buildings Are Adaptive, Not Prescriptive

Studio Aisslinger creates a colorful new headquarters for LOQI

Hand in glove

Bumblebee Spaces adds new space-saving desk

COVID-19 dramatically changed what people want in a home—and Ikea has the data to prove it

CFN's The Working Space | December 18, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 18, 2020

In This Issue:

The Results are in: Herman Miller is now the Largest Office Furniture Manufacturer in the World

Herman Miller Reports Second Quarter Net Sales Fell 7% but takes the Number 1 position from Steelcase

Steelcase Reports Third Quarter Revenue Fell 35%. Falls to Second Place for the First Time Ever.

Women-Led Manufacturers are Modeling Ways to Engage Designers

These Are The High-Tech Desks Remote Workers Are Making Room For

Stylex gets Direct WFH Distribution in Collaboration with Pine and South

Virco Sales Fall 15.3% in the latest Quarter

Contract furniture's role in an elastic workplace: Quick stats

2021 Trends: Preserving Office Culture Within a Virtual World

2021 Trends: Third Places Are Redefining The Urban Workplace

Rebuilding Community in the Post-Pandemic World

Forget Working From Home: 2020 Is The Year That Reimagined Benefits

Llamasoft Offices – Ann Arbor

Six Ways The Pandemic Is Impacting Flexible Space

See inside a hospital designed by patients

Post pandemic workplace design

2021 Trends: Designing our workplaces to promote human connection

More Tenants Upsized Their Lease Renewals Than Downsized This Year

Avison Young’s Dallas Offices Receives WELL Certification

Keilhauer Introduces The Carbon Neutral Swurve Seating Collection

Arconas Launches Hopscotch Furniture Collection Featuring Seating, Power, and Lighting

Versteel Brings Elemental Modern Design to New GeoMetrix Table Collection

The majority of employees admit to boozing while working from home

CFN's The Working Space | December 15, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 15, 2020

In This Issue:

The Vaccine will Save the Industry, Maybe.

Why a commercial furniture maker just snapped up a residential brand

Furniture Maker Uhuru Introduces High-Design, Affordable Work-from-Home Office Brand--Propr

Surprising Truths About the New Hybrid Workplace

Workforce Preferences Will Drive the New Office Model

5 Trends Driving the New Post-Pandemic Workplace

2021 Trends: The Homework Revolution

How the New Hybrid Workplace Can Support Equity for All

Google Now Sees Employees Returning to Offices in September

Cycode Offices – Tel Aviv

The pandemic has killed cookie-cutter offices, says the first-ever CEO at one of NYC's cutting-edge architecture firms

Across the Globe, Workers Want a Hybrid Work Model

Pandemic Impact On Health Care Design: Smaller, Flexible Spaces With Great Adaptability

Office Landlords Face Steep Climb in Reducing Operational Costs

Co-Working Franchises Sets its Sights on San Antonio and Austin

Keilhauer's Pact Collection: A Solution For Space Conscious Workplaces

How the pandemic has put flexible furniture on the map

See the hypnotic meditation rooms Google plans to add to some offices

CFN's The Working Space | December 11, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 11, 2020

In This Issue:

The surprising way to build a productive organization in 2021

Women-owned companies partner, elevating client experience through new database: Hightower + Source

Inscape Second Quarter Fiscal 2021 Sales Drop 69%

Workrite To Pay $7.1 Million To Resolve Alleged False Claims Violations Brought By Whistleblower

Why 2021 Will Be the Year of the “Workcation”

Forget Space-as-a-Service, the Future of the Office is Productivity-as-a-Service

Hot desks

Don't Expect The COVID-19 Vaccine To Start A Rush Back To The Office

Tech industry employees three times more stressed working from home than others

Personal space is not merely an issue of hygiene, but a biological imperative

Majority of employees struggling with ‘always on’ work culture

It’s official: Remote working is here to stay

Okta HQ Transforms Their Use Of Physical Space Around The World

Rising Sublease Space Takes Greater Share of Total Office Inventory

How Will Permanent Remote Work Impact L.A.’s Downtown Core?

Pantone picks two colors of the year, and they’re complete opposites

A New Typology for 2021: The Home Room

2021 Trends: The Destination-Worthy Workplace

Coworking Firm’s Struggles To Emerge From Bankruptcy Reveal Issues Plaguing Operators

Brilliant contrasts / FLOS

Ultraleggera is an inflated metal chair that weighs less than two kilograms

After 70 years, Ikea will stop making its beloved catalog

CFN's The Working Space | December 8, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 8, 2020

In This Issue:

  • 2021 Trends: Reimagining An Ecosystem For Work

  • Gunlocke furniture delays layoffs for 3 months

  • Back to Work Longtime industry veteran Frank Lytle has some new products to safely get everyone back to the office in 2021.

  • The Office Strikes Back

  • CHRONOTOPIA, rethinking the fluidity of space

  • Organizational design for a hybrid future of work

  • Enter the Cube Farm

  • YPF Tower Coworking Space – Buenos Aires

  • Climate change is threatening your company’s building. Insurance won’t be enough to protect it

  • This is the exact type of break you should be taking when working from home

  • A new elegance - the “Buddy Hub” for Pedrali

  • Inscape Rocks the Home Office: Adapts Award-Winning RockIt Desk for Home, Creates the Ultimate WFH Experience

  • KFI Studios Bring Power to Popular Tabletops

  • BMW Motorsport, BMW Designworks, and Sedus combine functionality and home design in the “Fusion SL” concept furniture

CFN's The Working Space | December 4, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 4, 2020

In This Issue:

HNI Corporation Announces Agreement to Acquire Design Public Group

Everyone thinks COVID-19 destroyed the office. But that’s not the whole story

Rising to a New Standard for the Future Workplace

Hybrid working presents us with a once in a generation opportunity

Employees Increasingly Reluctant to Return to the Office

The Implications of a Data-Less Workplace Strategy

Three questions to: Patricia Urquiola

Workers demand green office technology from their employers

Pearson Lloyd designs own studio with Cassion Castle Architects

B&B Italia appoints Piero Lissoni as artistic director

Furniture maker raises $6.9 million to boost eCommerce presence

Can Herman Miller redefine the office chair as a wellness product?

Tangram Interiors Represented on Project Teams of Three Southern California Honorees for Architectural Excellence

Big Office Occupiers Push Back On The New Clichés Of Real Estate

Office Manhattan November Leasing Activity Down 55% From October

Come On Now. Are Companies Really Going to Abandon Urban Cores?

Merchandise Mart Owner Vornado Announces Layoffs, Leadership Shake-Up Amid Cost-Cutting Measures

Work From Home: Who Should Pay For Home Office Costs?

Creative firms have most to lose from a loss of serendipity

The Virgil Abloh c/o VITRA collection explores the urgent need for inclusivity in design

Is working from home straining your eyes? These industrial designers have a solution

Concertex Introduces Manta – A Vegan Leather Shagreen

Wisconsin's prisoner-made furniture business is still booming

CFN's The Working Space | December 1, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | December 1, 2020

In This Issue:

Even After the Pandemic, Hybrid Work Will Change the Office Forever

New Knoll Research Reveals The “5Gs” of Generation Z

How could workplace health and safety change after Covid-19?

Women Leaving the Workforce Is a Big Problem. Creative Space Use Is a Partial Solution.

The Accelerating Evolution of the Human-Centric Workplace

Between Lovelace & Turing: Microsoft unveils new Israeli digs

Office Jobs Are Recovering Faster Than Usual For a Recession

Living at work

No Office, No Problem: Software Unicorn Gitlab’s CEO Warns You’re Probably Doing Remote Work Wrong

Italian Designer Antonio Citterio Explains His 2020 Flexform Collection

Very Good & Proper launches latest collection for homeworking

Vaccination Center Design Concepts by Peter Pepper

Trump's furniture fail: that's not a desk, Donald – it's a table for TV dinners

CFN's The Working Space | November 27, 2020

CFN's The Working Space | November 27, 2020

In This Issue:

What – you’re never going back to the office?

What is Commercial Home Office Furniture (and Does My Team Actually Need It)?

Why companies are fighting to keep women from quitting

Post-COVID-19, remote work won’t be the norm in India and China

Location of the workplace becomes more important to workers in post-pandemic UK

The Workplace of the Future with Henning Figge

How Retail Design Insights Will Inspire Workplace Design

Tour Westdale's Modern New Dallas Headquarters By Perkins&Will

Spurred On By the Pandemic, Companies Seek to Leave High-Cost States

WeWork Expanding On-Demand Offering Nationwide After Successful NYC Pilot

COVID-19 just one-factor impacting the wellbeing of employees working from home

After Sweeping WFH Pronouncement, Synchrony Puts 200K SF Atlanta Office Up For Sublease

Organizers of IMM Cologne take the "painful" decision to cancel the 2021 show

Muji is the latest brand to go the lifestyle retail route with West Elm deal

ECA by Dekko launches Reef Mini, an in-surface power and charging solution ideal for conferencing spaces

This pandemic bed-couch-desk-massager should be top of your winter wishlists