Herman Miller picks a non-furniture CEO who ran Banana Republic and worked for the Gap for 25 years.
Herman Miller Elects Andi Owen as Next President and Chief Executive Officer
Find Your Fresh Perspective Outdoors: Design Q+A
The founder of Extremis shares his expertise for designing outdoor furniture his company calls “tools for togetherness.”
National asking rents for office space rise again
Creative Collisions: Atlanta’s Ad Scene Mashup
Inside the high-tech Swiss factory where simplicty is key
Fritz Haller’s philosophy of simplicity lives on in the USM furniture system that carries his name. Yet production in the company’s Swiss HQ is a complex and meticulous process.
As Workplace Needs Shift Outside The Office, Landlords And Coworking Providers Seek Partnerships To Get In The Game
The evolving white-collar workforce no longer operates solely from the office as previous generations did, and workplace-as-a-service providers are taking advantage of that shift by moving workspaces into new realms.
The Generation Z World: Shifts in Urban Design, Architecture, and the Corporate Workplace
Gen Z influence, from buying behaviors to issues of attraction and retention in the workplace, will be powerful and critical to real estate clients.
SoftBank Puts Another Cool Billion Into WeWork As The Coworking Giant's Losses, Revenues Balloon
Ford’s New CEO Has a Cerebral Style—and to Many, It’s Baffling
Former Steelcase CEO and now Ford CEO Jim Hackett was hired to turn around the auto maker. First, he has to explain his vision.
Tech Workers Call the Shots for Space
The largest generation in the workforce, Millennials are driving the agendas of how companies operate, what workplaces look like and what technology is expected.
Red Bull Reenergizes a Warehouse Into Their Atlanta Workplace
The office is more than a place to work—it’s a destination for employees to socialize and explore ideas.
Office Depot Continues to Expand Its Business Services Platform: Workonomy
Workonomy reflects Office Depot’s ability to architect all its customers’ business solutions in one offering, empowering them with personalized and seamless access to the products, services and resources they need to get work done.
How well do you know your office chair?
As more mobile workers are unshackling from their desks, almost any moderately comfortable perch qualifies as office seating today.
Retail apocalypse watch: Office Depot is now moonlighting as a coworking space
While working at an Office Depot sounds like a beige-carpeted version of hell, on the plus side, you’ll never run out of toner and will always be able to find a pen when you need one.
Co-Working Heads To The Local Mall
The retail and co-working industries may very well see more deals such as the one Macerich inked with Industrious to bring its co-working platform to select malls in Macerich’s portfolio.
Study: Blue light from screens can steadily blind us
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports reports that our blue-tinted screens are even worse for us than we think—they’re steadily making us blind.
Design Within Reach Inks Deal For 617K SF 'Future-Proofed' E-Commerce Distribution Center
Design Within Reach has inked a deal with landlord Duke Realty to lease a 617K SF industrial build-to-suit on 46 acres in the greater Cincinnati area.
The cargo cult of modern office design
Humanscale Provides Roadmap to Net Positive Manufacturing
he new CSR report reveals several areas of focus, including material transparency, responsible manufacturing and handprinting and highlights Humanscale's progress as it works toward its own ambitious goals.
Youngest workers prefer simple perks such as free coffee, flexi hours and birthday leave
Although they favour simple perks over one big yearly event, such as a Christmas party, they are the group least likely to report they don’t enjoy Christmas parties (22 percent), highlighting that this annual celebration could still be a perk worth maintaining.