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Tensions Brewing As Leaders Push A Return To The Office — And Workers Push Back

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Many Americans returning to pre-Covid routines still aren't going back to the office

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The prophet of remote work says go ahead and do your household chores while nobody’s looking.

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Remote work isn’t the problem. Work is.

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New Demand for Office Space Continues to Slide

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The Work from Home Burnouts

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Return to the Office Isn't a Return to Normal

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A Hotel-Style Hybrid Work Environment May Be the Answer to the Post-Pandemic Office Question

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Haworth Partners with Mikomax / CBRE Reports Improved Office Demand In Half Of Major U.S. Markets

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Steelcase Shares Slide Nearly 6% as 4Q Earns Hit By Supply Chain Issues, Inflation

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After Covid Closures, a New Quest to Make Offices Less Awful

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The Office of The Future and much more

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Showrooms Are Opening Up In Fulton Market As Manufacturers, Designers See It As An Alternative To The Mart / 6 Unusual Amenities in a Post-Pandemic Office / What Bosses Really Think About the Future of the Office / Sublease Inventory Declining For First Time Since Start Of Pandemic / and dozens more stories.

In This Issue:

• Majority Of U.S. Employees Skeptical About Return-To-Work Plans

• Pilots + Prototypes: When the Workplace Becomes a Laboratory

• More Companies Tightening Remote-Work Eligibility

• 4 ways to navigate your return to the office

• The metaverse won’t be able to fix this major work issue. Here’s what will

• Kimball International, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2022 Results

• Beyond Reservations: How Tech Can Make People Want to Come Back to the Office

• More people are staying single—and workplaces need to adjust

• Pearson Lloyd Views Office Furniture Differently

• New research provides insights into post-pandemic workplace

• Coworking Operators Are Adding Locations, Raising Rents As Market Stabilizes

• Managing Workplace Change: Five Considerations

• A brief guide to office design

• Jane Abernethy Insists on Walking the Talk

• Hybrid Working: A matter of reputation?

• MassMutual Weighs A Hybrid Work Future As Its Seaport Tower Opens

• Why fashion brands are collaborating with dead midcentury architects

• Ep. 159: Clever Extra - Innovating for the Future of Furniture Design

• The Top 4 Trends Happening in Spaces & Places

• Make The New Normal Work with a Change Management Plan

• Coworking’s Growing Footprint in Malls

• Why ocean-bound plastic is heading for the office

• Configura Holds Largest CET Experience Yet

• Two Companies Offer Next-Generation Solutions for Circular Workplaces

• This London startup wants you to rent a pop-up office just like a Citi Bike

• Why Co-Working Spaces Are Betting on the Suburbs

• Where's my order? Tracing one container through a broken global supply chain

• The Future Of Work Looks More Flexible And Independent According To A New Report

• Report Predicts Remote Work Trends Will Cause Steep CRE Losses, Problems For Cities

• PODCAST: NYC Office Owner Chris Schlank On Tenant 'Hubris' And The Future Of Office

• Air quality concerns hindering return to five-day office week

• Inside one company’s struggle to fix the “monstrosities” of the furniture industry

• Eames Demetrios picks five highlights from Eames Office exhibition 80 Years of Design

• Are businesses suffering the vacancy effect?

• Springboard’s DOURO Collection Debuts First Horizontal Working Surfaces

• Setting your sights on a boardroom table? WallGoldfinger Furniture goes big with new boardroom table line

• LDI Interiors Launches Three New Patterns To Their EnviroLeather™ Prints "Soiree" Collection

• The New Raw 3D prints "zero-waste" Ermis chair from studio's own offcuts

• heijltjesakkaya's transforming furniture promotes physical activity in the workplace

• Allseating’s Prata Wins 2021 GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN Platinum Award

• Made in America, The smartBOX Company is Helping Offices Open On-Time and On-Budget

• RelvãoKellermann for gumpo: "pony"

• X-Chair Launches X77 Massage Chair

• Studio Plow Brings Faire’s Digital Identity to Life at its New Headquarters in San Francisco

• Stantec Uses Pops Of Color To Bring VIVEX Offices To Life

• The Malin is a New York Co-Working Space for Design-Minded Members

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

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• 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

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

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

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

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