CFN's The Working Space | November 12, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | November 12, 2021

In This Issue:

CFN's The Working Space | November 5, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | November 5, 2021

In This Issue:

  • Humanscale Launches Residential Designer Trade Program

  • DIRTT Third-quarter revenue fell short of expectations as loss grows

  • Office Furniture Supplier Aims for Record Year Despite Shipping Delays

  • Flexible workspace provider Uncommon launches first office furniture collection

  • The office of the future will be a leader-free, social-space

  • Students are the next target for co-working spaces. Campuses are taking note

  • Shopify makes a major design industry acquisition

  • "Woman Made: Great Women Designers" by Jane Hall

  • The next phase of remote work will be even more disruptive

  • Here’s what the future of work looks like after COVID-19

  • Manhattan Office Leasing Hit New Highs In October, But So Did Availability

  • Workers Aren't Running Back To Boston's Recovering Office Market

  • Recruitment drive sees majority of firms embed flexible working policies

  • Remote Work Policies Embroiled in Historic Worker Movement

  • Herman Miller Dealer Stealer

  • The ultimate office amenity in 2021? Fresh air

  • Desperate Office Landlords Are Offering Double Commissions to Brokers

  • All those people quitting jobs, where are they going?

  • Announcing the Shaw Contract Design Awards 2021 Winners!

  • Teknion Introduces WithIn™

  • Flos introduces Oblique Qi - a compact table lamp with wireless charging base

  • Zaha Hadid + Karimoku Furniture Collaborate on a Furniture Collection

  • Recycled plastic REX chair by Ineke Hans is sold with refundable deposit

  • Spacesmith Creates A New HQ for Nonprofit Legal Provider, NYLAG

  • Foster + Partners flanks Istanbul Apple store with travertine stone walls

CFN's The Working Space | October 29, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 29, 2021
  • In This Issue:

  • Steelcase Acquires Spanish Design Company Viccarbe

  • Vinnie Johnson shutters office furniture dealership Airea

  • HNI Shares Slide As Inflation Bites Into Q3, Margin Shrinks

  • West Michigan's largest furniture manufacturers to require COVID-19 vaccine

  • ABI September 2021: Architecture firm billings end the summer on a strong note

  • Significant Year-Over-Year Growth Across North America - Pipeline Index Remains Robust, above 50%

  • What Designers Need to Know about Supply Chain Disruption

  • New Demand for Office Space Drops in September

  • Designing a Workplace That Optimizes for Movement and Mobility

  • Soaring U.S. business starts in pandemic show new normal evolving

  • This is What Hybrid Work Looks Like in Action

  • Where Flex Fits in the Return to the Office

  • Covid Acted As A Pivot And Is Bringing New Tech Into The Office World

  • A burst of technological innovation is reshaping the future of work

  • How Hybrid Work Will Transform Our Workplaces

  • Enticing Reluctant Workers Back To The Office Will Test Companies' Leadership

  • 'Stunning' Percentage Of Companies Haven't Set Hybrid Work Plans: EY Survey

  • Impact of flexible work demonstrates a fragile post-pandemic business world

  • Employees are designing the workplace of the future

  • Most remote workers judge how co-workers' home offices look in video calls

  • Working in an office on Thursdays 4 times more popular than Mondays

  • The benefits of having dogs at work

  • WeWork Finally Gets Its Debut as a Public Company Trading on NYSE

  • Flex Office's Supply-Demand Drivers Point to Further Growth

  • Returning to the Physical Workplace - What's At Stake?

  • Future Of Work: Landlords Need To Start Leveraging The Power Of AI, Here's Why.

  • Chicago's Downtown Office Market's Downward Trend Will Continue For Months As Covid Blocks Typical Recovery

  • Productivity concerns remain as more people tentatively return to office

  • Is home working too homely?

  • Helping the planet one chair at a time

  • Work-From-Home Successes Prove You Can Live, Thrive in Palm Springs

  • The Reimagined Workspace: Amobi by AMQ

  • Tinnef from Scandinavian Spaces Awarded 3 Best of NeoCon Awards - Gold, Innovation, and Sustainability The occasional table is a beacon of what future generations demand from the built environment

  • Back at the office with noisy coworkers? This privacy hood keeps sounds and nosy people away

  • Emeco introduces “Truss” collection by Erwan & Ronan Bouroullec

  • Federica Biasi designs Kokoro Working Box for Manerba

  • Herman Miller Wants To Put Their Art in Your House As Much As You Do

  • Normann Copenhagen’s new headquarters-cum-flagship functions as a spatial marketing campaign

  • Hendy Gives Nogin A Colorful California Office Space

CFN's The Working Space | October 22, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 22, 2021

In This Issue:

  • How Younger Workers’ Preferences and Workstyles Will Define the Future Workplace

  • One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Employees’ Needs Are Changing Work Spaces

  • Here’s Why Employees at Top-Performing Companies Need the Office

  • How Working From Home Could Change Where Innovation Happens

  • 5 ways companies are helping employees return to the office

  • Reimagined office lobbies can serve as shared cultural hubs

  • Should Your Office Be More Like a Clubhouse? This HQ Makes the Case

  • Why Technology is Key to Delivering Occupier Flexibility

  • So what's happening to all the plexiglass we thought was a solution last year?

  • Texas-based Air Force agency converting to mostly telework in ‘Office of the Future’

  • How Eco-Friendly Is Remote Working?

  • Hybrid work attitudes – leadership still face challenges aligning their strategy

  • VTS To Acquire Workplace Experience Platform Used By Brookfield, Oxford, Hines

  • Net Office Absorption is Now Trending Positive in Majority of US Metros

  • The Economic Impact of a Hybrid Office

  • Goodmans interior Structures becomes Arizona's exclusive distributor for Herman Miller and Knoll

  • Corporate Interior Systems Establishes Preeminent Partnership with Haworth

  • New furniture at NeoCon captures today's workplace trends

  • Configura Wins Best of NeoCon Gold for Stage

  • 10 Questions With… Barber Osgerby

  • 2021 Healthcare Design Awards

  • Office furniture firm Bisley appoints first creative director

  • Adela Rex Collection Demonstrates the Beauty + Sustainability of Plywood

  • This chair style is all over social media—here's how to get one

  • Koroseal Partners with Stacy Garcia | New York to Launch an Exclusive, Urban-Inspired Wallcovering Collection

  • MdeAS Breathes New Life into Historic McGraw-Hill Building at 330 West 42nd Street

  • Take a Tour of Microsoft Australia's Fully Immersive Space By GroupGSA

CFN's The Working Space | October 19, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 19, 2021

In This Issue:

  • Office Occupancy Stabilized In Q3, Ushering In The Next Phase Of Uncertainty

  • The Next Workplace to Bring People Together

  • NYC Construction Employment To Hit Lowest Level Since 2014

  • London office market falls thanks to uptake of remote work

  • NYC Construction Employment To Hit Lowest Level Since 2014

  • 4 ways to navigate your return to the office

  • A safe and secure workplace as we emerge from the pandemic? Here's how

  • Organizations prioritize technologies for the year ahead

  • Knight Dragon’s Kerri Sibson on flexing to the workspace demands of London’s creative class

  • Will WeWork Work?

  • The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

  • Herman Miller’s Design Yard transformation

  • Try These Cool Alternatives to Traditional Coworking Spaces

  • Managers can be blind to some of the stresses of home workers

  • Extremis Openings Permanent Chicago Showroom in The Merchandise Mart

  • Herman Miller Partners with USA Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai to Explore the Future of Work

  • The New Hybrid Office Playbook, as tested by SF Bay Area Businesses.

  • Bank of America 'very focused on getting our people back to the office'

  • Z-Bar Lighting by Koncept Gets an Upgrade With the Gen 4 Line

  • Meet the next-generation of bookable work pods

  • Kimball Introduces EverySpace – A Creative Framework for the Future

  • Unika Vaev Introduces Four New Acoustic Products from Instyle

  • Nate: a wooden furniture collection from Brunner and ASK

  • Mannington Commercial Introduces Amtico Active Lines Collection

  • Fresh Introductions for Fall. So.Many.Choices.

  • NeoCon 2021 Trend: Coziness Factor

  • Snøhetta designs co-working space in Tokyo

CFN's The Working Space | October 15, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 15, 2021

In This Issue:

  • Workers Back At The Office At Highest Rate Since Pandemic Began

  • Workers feel more trusted and motivated thanks to hybrid working

  • Janet Pogue McLaurin On Where Work and The Workplace is Headed

  • The pandemic changed co-working needs—WeWork and Feather have partnered to meet them

  • Tangram Announces Strategic Partnership with Symbiote

  • 4 ways to navigate your return to the office

  • Canadian Design Firm Ivy Studio Is Revolutionizing Contract Interiors

  • Developers Are Betting On Live-work-play Communities To Attract New Tenants

  • Remote workers to enjoy increased tax relief, Irish government announces

  • Emerging Growth Firms Are Driving Manhattan’s Office Resurgence

  • Considerations for a Truly Multi-Generational Business

  • Wellbeing, mental health and loneliness become major business concerns

  • Shift to hybrid working highlights the value of weak ties

  • Blueprint for Inclusive Workplaces of the Future

  • How to Make Your Office More Than Just an Office

  • Maharam Launches Outside In at ICA, University of Pennsylvania

  • Brands don't prioritise sustainability "unless they see dollar signs" says Benjamin Hubert

  • Promoting Well-being in the Workplace Using Restorative Design

  • Return of Office Workers Reaches Pandemic High as Employees Trickle In

  • What the Return to the Office Will Look Like

  • Interview with Daniel Stromborg from Gensler about "Mixu"

  • Wagner Living: "D2" for "Workspace in progress" at the MAKK

  • Icons of Denmark exhibits new 4T System designed in collaboration with Hee Welling

  • QUORUM MULTICONFERENCE by Lacasse

  • Kimball Announces New Product Introductions That Diversify Their Portfolio

  • AIS Wraps a Successful Show at NeoCon 2021

  • Announcing the 2021 Best of NeoCon 2021 Award Winners

  • National Office Furniture Releases New Product Enhancements Tailored to Add Comfort to the Workplace

  • WallGoldfinger Furniture’s Doko line earns Special Mention in Architizer A+Product Awards

  • Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’

  • Design Pool, LLC. Receives HiP Award & Metropolis Likes at NeoCon 2021

  • Steelcase Hybrid Solutions Receive NeoCon 2021 Awards

  • Vocon Creates An Industrial-Inspired NYC HQ For Avison Young

CFN's The Working Space | October 12, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 12, 2021

In This Issue:

  • Richard Schultz, Designer Who Made the Outdoors Modern, Dies at 95

  • Ted Moudis Associates Presents New Manhattan Office for Ducera PartnersNew Steelcase CEO sees opportunity in rapidly shifting office furniture industry

  • Tarkett to Relocate Showroom to Chicago’s Fulton Market

  • Workers feel more trusted and motivated thanks to hybrid working

  • What to consider when designing the intergenerational workspace

  • Cisco releases new hybrid work index based on millions of data points!

  • Amazon (AMZN) Softens Return-to-Office Policy, Says Remote Work Is Fine

  • What can the workplace learn from lockdown?

  • Designing for neurodiversity builds healthier workplaces for all

  • A New Generation of Designers Brings 'Sloppy Craft' to Commercial Interiors

  • What Corporate Offices Can Learn From The Co-Working Space Boom

  • WeWork Done Cutting Locations, Projects $1.5B Loss In 2021

  • Office furniture makers are getting creative about the environment

  • The Great Office Furniture Reshuffling

  • Brits shun traditional working hours, favoring flexibility and family life

  • Boston Mayor Signs Law Requiring All Buildings Over 20K SF To Be Net Zero Within 30 Years

  • Covid Spells The End For Office Buildings Already On Their Last Legs

  • Launching the new WELL Enterprise Provider designation in collaboration with IWBI

  • Herman Miller Group Chicago Showroom at Fulton Market Achieves WELL v2 Gold Level Certification

  • North America Custom Acoustics Manufacturer Launches Biophilic Moss Design & Engineering Company

  • 3D Printing: Case Study "Lounge Chair Slope" by Oechsler

  • Philippe Starck Teams Up With Andreu World on Sustainable Seating Line

  • Keilhauer's New Collaboration With Form Us With Love and More

  • NARBUTAS Marks Successful Opening of the New Chicago Showroom During Neocon 2021

  • Ted Moudis Associates Presents New Manhattan Office for Ducera Partners

CFN's The Working Space | October 8, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 8, 2021

In This Issue:

  • The clever trick one firm is using to design furniture for the hybrid work era

  • Open offices failed. These are 6 essentials to make sure the next office doesn’t

  • Hybrid Offices Come With More Data Privacy Challenges

  • Hotels Seizing Hybrid Opportunities Dropped by Offices

  • The next-gen smart office will be built on employee data. Is that what we want?

  • Future housing will be built to facilitate remote working, say panellists of Aritco talk

  • No Place Like Home: To Draw Workers Back, Designers Making Offices Look More Like Living Rooms

  • WeWork's launch with furniture rental company Feather includes local coworking spaces

  • Shaping the Future of Work: Three stages of transformation

  • Design history has conveniently excluded women. That’s finally changing

  • What To Expect When We Return to The Office - Part 2

  • Disconnect between executives and employees on returning to the office

  • SPACE, Inc. Awarded $50M Blanket Purchase Agreement from FDA

  • During NeoCon an Installation Lights Up the Mart

  • DARRAN's Honey Collection wins Best of NeoCon Competition and NeoCon Gold

  • Ultrafabrics, global leader in performance fabrics launches Uf Select its first offering made in North America

  • Our Favorites From NeoCon 2021

  • Allsteel Receives Four Awards at NeoCon 2021

  • Hightower Returns to NeoCon With a New, Award-Winning Showroom

  • See the 8 most amazing sights at Nike’s new LeBron James Innovation Center

  • LX Hausys America Introduces New Pietra Collection by HIMACS Solid Surface

CFN's The Working Space | October 5, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 5, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 1, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | October 1, 2021

In This Issue:

  • Ready or Not, Purposeful Work Is Coming

  • Herman Miller, Inc. Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2022 Results

  • Herman Miller Exclusive Manufacturer of the National Museum of Norway's Competition Chair Design Winner "Portrait"

  • Configura announces acquisition of ProjectMatrix

  • Professional Associations and Metropolis Create the Interior Design Pledge for Positive Impact

  • The One Element Missing From The Hybrid Workplace Conversation

  • Delta Variant Slowing, Not Ending Office Recovery

  • Boston, Texas, Florida Set Pace for US Office Recovery

  • Cisco In Talks To Establish Huge Midtown Atlanta Office

  • Is the Office Market Stabilizing?

  • The Frustration with Productivity Culture

  • Andreu World’s Conversations About Work Takes Readers Beyond Shop Talk

  • The truth about the workplace comes out of the well

  • Workers are putting on pants to return to the office only to be on Zoom all day

  • Is Coworking the Solution To Remote Work Isolation?

  • 5 tips to help you choose the right office chair

  • Eames…Sneakers? Why Fashion Is Obsessed With Furniture

  • Logicdata announces Historic Move to "One-Stop-Shop" for Customized Adjustable Legs, Frames

  • NARBUTAS Opens a New Chicago Showroom During Neocon 2021

  • Gabriel Opens its Largest Showroom Globally in Chicago

  • Steelcase Unveils Ergonomic Chair Designed for 21st Century Work

  • "Indeed" from Dauphin works in the office and in the home office

  • Morbern takes the Heat out of Vinyl Seats with Koolfab

  • The Atra Armchair Continues the Rising Trend of Indoor/Outdoor Furniture

  • Leading Finnish green city Lahti sets up remote workstations in nature sites free for everyone to use

  • TPG Architecture Gives Newsday A New Space Reflective Of Its Brand

CFN's The Working Space | September 28, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | September 28, 2021

In This Issue:

  • Cushman & Wakefield Predicts Mass Return To Offices In Q1

  • 5 Findings From New Study About the Value of the Office

  • From office to workspace – how we work post pandemic will see further changes to the real estate market

  • Office Equipment Sales Surge Due to Work-From-Home Battle Stations

  • The suburban office park rises from the dead

  • Report Finds Companies Are Underestimating The "Great Resignation"

  • Remote working led to drop in high quality output, Microsoft study concludes

  • Who’s really returning to the office? It’s not exactly who you think

  • AIA: Billings Show Continued Strength in August

  • Flex Giant IWG Weighs Breaking Itself Up

  • Adding value to office design through roof terraces

  • Leadership In an Era of Change Fatigue

  • Innovant Introduces Palette, a Line of Multi-Function Private Office and Collaboration Furniture That Can Be Quickly Reconfigured for a Changing Workplace

  • Designtex Introduces New Digitally-Printed Wallcoverings at NeoCon 2021

  • AIS Heads to NeoCon 2021

  • Ethnicraft Debuts Oak Stairs Lockers at NeoCon 2021

  • Jetty:Mod Among Several New Collections from Allsteel at NeoCon 2021

  • New textile samples solution Mercato Place unveils during NeoCon 2021

  • North America Custom Acoustics Manufacturer Launches Biophilic Moss Design & Engineering Company

  • Introducing the CURVO Collection: Three New Collaboration Tools for Flexible Workspaces

  • LDI Interiors Launches EnviroSil® - New Line of Stain-Resistant Silicone Upholstery for Demanding Environments

  • Successful hybrid: CML headquarters with luminaires by Artemide

CFN's The Working Space | September 24, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | September 24, 2021

In This Issue:

  • 'Resimercial': The Terrible Word for Today’s Trendy Office Aesthetic

  • HNI Corporation Provides Business Update

  • Perkins&Will Gives Kimball A Clean, Light-Filled New Space in Dallas

  • This $1.6 billion hospital redesign dramatically reduces ER wait times

  • Steelcase Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2022 Results

  • British Design Brand Established & Sons Teams Up with Steelcase

  • MG West to Acquire Unisource Solutions’ Northern California Operations

  • Ethosource celebrates a milestone mark of 20 years in the office furniture industry

  • iOFFICE + SpaceIQ announces strategic investment by Autodesk

  • Ten installations to see at the Chicago Architecture Biennial during NeoCon

  • The 3 Biggest Coworking Trends Shaping up for 2022

  • Danish design renaissance sees Copenhagen "becoming like the area around Milan"

  • NYC Office Recovery Will be Subdued, Below Average: Fitch Ratings

  • Report Finds Companies Are Underestimating The "Great Resignation"

  • Three quarters of firms planning to change work culture

  • More companies say goodbye to the office as COVID-19 rages and remote work gains acceptance

  • Winds of change are blowing through the office

  • Office Sublease Overhang Eased Slightly In August

  • Leadership In an Era of Change Fatigue

  • Want to be a great designer? Steal these 30 secrets from the world’s top experts

  • Google to Spend $2.1 Billion on Manhattan Office Building

  • Reshoring Surges As Supply Chain Snarls Live On

  • Do Building Owners Have a Duty To Help Solve Airborne Illness?

  • This book explains actually helpful actions you can take to fight climate change

  • Here’s why flexibility, not hybrid, is what employees say they want

  • Watch a live talk on the creative process with Benjamin Hubert

  • NeoCon 2021: LINAK U.S. Inc. keeps you moving no matter where you work

  • The Accord Collection from Concertex

  • Resource Furniture's Giro Takes You From Desk to Dining Table for Four

  • This invisible gadget turns any table into a wireless phone charger

  • The SmartBOX Company Unveils a full line of American Made, Sustainably Manufactured Personal Work Pods

  • Pair's new benching system with a waterfall edge, Fade

  • Enhancing Eklund: National Office Furniture Fortifies a New Favorite

  • Vitra Design Museum: "Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 - today"

CFN's The Working Space | September 21, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | September 21, 2021

In This Issue:

  • What Is the Value of ‘Tattle Tech’ in the Modern Workplace?

  • Jeanne Gang is creating a better future by building on the past

  • How to deal with the coworker you hate as you return to the office

  • Maximum flexibility, minimum hassle: Space as a service (SPaaS)

  • Nearly Half Of Companies Want To Downsize Their Office Spaces Post-Pandemic: Report

  • Remote Work Expected to Fuel Housing Demand for Years to Come

  • Nook Wellness Pods provide Shelter, Comfort and Calm for NeoCon attendees

  • Three questions to Jeannette Altherr

  • People Don’t Want to Be In an Office Every Day but They Want Access to One

  • Fresh New Energy From 9to5 Seating

  • Okamura Introduces Phlox

  • Introducing the HAL Lounge Chair

  • Carl Hansen & Son Presents the Flexible Embrace Sofa

  • Introducing Flek Pure: 3form’s New 100 Percent Recycled Architectural Material

  • Ole Wanscher's T-Chair Given New Lease of Life at Carl Hansen & Son

  • CannonDesign Swaps Old for High-Tech for the Cboe Global Markets in Chicago

  • Christ & Gantenbein designs Roche office to give staff "a reason to come to work"

  • Rapt Studio Employs an Outdoorsy-tech Aesthetic for VF Corporation’s Headquarters in Denver

  • Whitney Brothers® Nature View Serenity Pod Wins Spaces4Learning 2021 New Product Award

CFN's The Working Space | September 17, 2021

CFN's The Working Space | September 17, 2021

In This Issue:

  • Where Work Goes From Here

  • Thriving in the Fluid Workplace

  • Four insights from the workplace of the future

  • Regenerative Workplace

  • Your office air is making you stupider

  • Ikea's massive gaming collection, including a very weird new product

  • Virco Reports 5.8% Increase in Net Income for Second Quarter and Record Backlog

  • Climate Action 2021: Real Estate Must Adapt

  • WeWork Could Push Back Its Deadline To Go Public

  • Office Door Handles Have 30 Times More Bacteria than Toilet Seats

  • Offices Reopen With Safety Plans, but Big-City Commutes Spook Workers

  • Inviting Nature into the Workplace

  • Workers struggle with Delta "whiplash"

  • Byrne Charging Helps Visitors Plug in (and play) at this year's ArtPrize

  • Tangram Donates Classroom Desks and Workstations for Children at Orange County Rescue Mission Amid Hybrid School Year

  • 16 Products from Milan’s Supersalone Reveal the Global Design Industry’s Response to Our New World

  • This German startup lets you attend 3D trade shows in your browser

  • Steelcase Outlines ESG Goals and Priorities in Annual Impact Report

  • As Traditional Office Recovery Falters, Coworking Firms Continue To Bounce Back

  • Anyplace Launches Anyplace Select, a New Type of Accommodation Designed for Remote Workers

  • IKEA introduces movable sleeping capsules in Paris

  • Japanese-Inspired Sculptural Installation Brings New Life to a Historic Seattle Building

  • 9 to 5 no more: a London co-working space is designed for the post-COVID work world