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…
HNI to acquire Kimball International for $485M / Closed auto plant reborn as hub for HNI distribution network / Court official calls DIRTT’s legal action against Falkbuilt “a waste of time” / Working from Home More of a Big-City Phenomenon / Less than a third of businesses know how energy efficient their office is / Frövi calls Floor 11, Suite 101 of The Merchandise Mart their Chicago home / Adobe designed its new color-coded office tower with neuroscience /
Carnegie Announces the Passing of John Stein, Founder of Kirei / The busy furniture hustlers of Silicon Valley / 81,700 Office Chairs Recalled After 10 People Hurt in Falls / Twitter Is Dumping Most of Its New York Office / U.S. Return To Office Lags Europe, Asia 3 Years Into Covid / More Office Occupiers Are Looking to Their Buildings for Edge Computing / Keep The Empathy And The Talent With Human-Centric Design / One in four people will work from abroad this year, and many won't tell their employer / Firms get that people want flexible working, but are still slow to act
A study found the four-day workweek works / Auditor deems City of Vancouver high-end office chairs bought with 'due regard' for value / Fellowes Announces the Extension of Its Brand into Contract Furniture / Loll Designs Grows Its Contract Team In Anticipation of New Distribution Model / ABI January 2023: Architecture firm billings decline at slower pace / DIRTT Reports Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Results / Haworth Reports Setting Global Sales Milestone in 2022 / HNI Corporation Reports Earnings for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 / Office Furniture Dealers Reinvent after the Pandemic / More Companies Are Adding Space Than Removing, But Only a Year Out / Office Demand Is Alive and Well in These Cities
Sedus Stoll AG on course for further growth / Bisley signs with Google to create office furniture for California HQ / As budget woes continue, NYC turns to high-end furniture designer to outfit offices / Amazon To Mandate 3 Days A Week Of Office Work / Inside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office / Could a Four Day Work Week Be the Key To Getting People Back Into the Office? / ‘The workplace has become more nuanced’: how 2023 will impact work / How Roles in Workplace Interior Design Have Changed / The Old Office is Dead. Long Live Intentionally Human-Centered Office. / 3 Surprises Impacting the Return to the Office
The Death of Office Culture Leads to Boom Times for Used-Chair Salesman / LINAK U.S. Inc. acquires new building, expanding Louisville campus / These Cities Lead the Way for New Office Projects / Tech Layoffs Aren’t An Office Disaster Everywhere / So Far 2023 Is Not Shaping Up to Be the Year of the Return to the Office / Finance, Insurance Industries Top Tech in Office Leasing / Remote Work is Just E-Commerce Déjà Vu All Over Again / Offices Need To Learn How To Get You in the Mood / The Ultra-Portable Power Solution - TUCK™
Kimball Sales Climb 21% / HAY Expands Wholesale Business in North America / Office Occupancy Hits New Milestone As Employers Regain Leverage / DIRTT Announces Leadership Changes / Kastle's Return-To-Office Barometer Tops 50% for First Time / Miami Has Become The Coworking Capital Of The World / Tech Leasing Plummeted 57 Percent in Fourth Quarter / Emotion’s Leading Role in Designing Positive Workplace Interiors / Navigating The Complexity Of The Hybrid Workplace Design Process / What Office Collaboration Will Look Like in 2025
Material Bank Expands Global Presence with Launch in Europe / Designing Office Environments That Evoke A Happy Work Experience / INSCAPE Announces Delisting of Subordinated Voting Shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange / Heller Partners with digby to Guarantee Design Legitimacy / The Value of the Invisible in Workplace Design / Offices valued as a place to get work done, not just connect / Logovisual feature-packed mobile walls designed to divide and connect / Unika Vaev Introduces its latest Acoustic Product Collection
Companies still in hiring mode despite economic fears / Allsteel Moves Iowa Sales Group to Fulton Market / Herman Miller extends use of ocean-bound plastic with Sayl chair / Saul Feldberg, Founder of Global Furniture Group, Dies at 87 / Nonresidential construction spending expected to moderate through 2024 / Ultrafabrics Launches the Awakening Palette / The rise of the uber-luxurious office / Is flexible working expanding the gulf between desk-based and deskless workers? / Why more businesses are changing their minds about the value of remote work / How the Future of Work Is Influencing Workplace Design
Inscape Files for CCAA Protection / Gensler hired Disney's former head Imagineer to lead experience design / Korn Ferry To Cut Staff, Reduce Office Footprint / Year Of Recovery For NYC Office Market Ended With A Whimper / Starbucks CEO Requires Corporate Employees To Return To Office At Least 3 Days A Week / Post-Pandemic Offices Are Becoming Ghost Towns on Mondays Now, Too / Rising costs will oblige more companies to offer flexible working / People prefer flexible to hybrid working according to new poll / Balancing Open Design And Acoustic Privacy / Vocon’s Debbie Donley On Balancing Professional and Personal in Office Design
Economy adds 223,000 jobs in December, showing resilience and cooling / Young Office acquires office furniture store McWaters / Inscape Announces Director Resignations / Manhattan Office Leasing Drops 43%, Despite 1.2M SF Fox Deal / Related Midwest Changes Course On Fulton Market Project, Plans New Office Tower Instead / A Shifting Workplace Paradigm for the New Year / The Front Line Of The Hybrid Work Tug Of War In 2023 Is In The Middle / Will Work From Home Continue in 2023 if There's a Recession? / Acer Unveils the eKinekt Bike Desk to Empower Active and Sustainable Lifestyles
Steelcase jets don't survive industry headwinds / AIA: Billings Slow Again in November / MillerKnoll orders decrease 12.5% in latest quarter / Office Occupancy Is Too Complicated for One Number / Big Tech Like Google, Meta And Others Ditch Office Space In London And Europe / Did offices come back in 2022? / For some employers, remote work is here to stay / As offices evolve, is the role of receptionist dying out? / Plot Twist: Award-Winning Design and Universal Appeal
Patricia Urquiola creates lofty showroom for Moroso in Manhattan / Virco Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates / Gen Z workers are not tech-savvy in the workplace – and it's a growing problem / CRE Sentiment Index Suggests Recession Will Be Shallow and Short / Office Absorption Likely to Significantly Slow In 2023 / Office Tenants Have The Advantage To Get More Demanding In 2023 / 'Remarkable And Unexpected' Backlog For Nation's Contractors Despite Economic Turmoil / The freelance workforce is becoming more highly skilled and highly educated / Modern workspaces can’t afford to be boring / and much more
Twitter is selling Knoll Generation chairs from its San Francisco HQ to the highest bidder / Inscape Announces Second Quarter Sales Declined. Survival at Stake / ULTRAFABRICS X PANTONE - A Collaboration / Jasper considering tax abatement for $2.1M investment by Versteel / Companies Are Lowering Their Office Size Requirements Even as Employees Slowly Return / Some Firms Backtrack On Work-From-Anywhere Policies. Office Owners Shouldn't Get Their Hopes Up / MillerKnoll Retail HQ Awarded Prestigious WELL Certification Platinum / WeWork Default A 'Real Possibility' After Fitch Downgrades Coworking Provider
Pantone's Color of the Year 2023 Is Viva Magenta / Shipping Prices, Volumes Plummeting During Logistics' Traditional Peak Season / Weak Financial Prospects Seem To Be Dragging Down Steelcase / DIRTT Announces the Closing of Private Placement / Maiden Home Introduces Contract Program / For Second Straight Month, New Demand for Office Space Rises / Manhattan Office Leasing Down 50% In Typically Busy November / Coworking Spaces Embrace Luxury To Woo New, Stable Clients
Bargains galore in the market for office furniture / U.S. Office Outlook Worsens As Finance World Balks / Hybrid Work Will Continue To Subvert Office Demand In 2023 / High Tech Office Occupancy Remains Complex / Sustainable Office Furniture: Promoting Circular Design in the Workplace / Remote jobs are in high demand, but positions are drying up
Architecture Billings Decline For First Time Since January 2021 / DIRTT Sales Climb / Herman Miller Expands European Gaming Business with Dedicated Gaming Webshops in Denmark, Finland and Sweden / Emerging Tech Markets Continue to Dominate Office Recovery / Hybrid Work’s Contribution to a More Sustainable Future / Why Return To The Office? It’s Time To Unleash The Workforce / Hybrid working is now an essential part of many job offers / Designing Human-Centric Workplaces Is Key To Hybrid Program Success
Coworking Demand Heats Up As Supply Lags / Here's What JPMorgan's Head of Global Real Estate Sees As the Future of the Office / New Study Indicates That Demand for Satellite Offices May Be on the Horizon / Office Leases Are Shrinking In Size And Length / Tech Industry U.S. Office Leasing Falls to Lowest Share in 5 Years / Companies still have way too much office space, and they can't sell it / Meet Flex Space’s More Chaotic Cousin: Gray Spaces / Hybrid Works Best When It's Close to Home / Art in the Workplace Improves Employee Well-Being, Study Finds
MillerKnoll Debuts New Headquarters for Global Retail Business / Kimball Reports First Quarter 2023 Results / Bisley owner gifts staff over half of company shares in succession move / Interface Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results / Meta Bails On Third Office Space, This Time In Austin / Companies Are Turning To Coworking To Support Their Larger Teams / Power to the People: The Human-Centric Workplace / Workplace tech is changing fast. Are companies keeping up?
Companies Ramp Up Coworking Expansions, A Rare Office Market Bright Spot / The future of the home office is multifunctional, mobile and modular / Office Design Strategies for A Positive Workplace Culture / What Does Meta's Recent Office Downsizing Say About the Market? / Hybrid isn't working for many people because nobody can agree what it is / Rieke Interiors rebrands / Creating a Hybrid Work Friendly Conference Room.
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