Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
As companies mull a return to the office, local business leaders are figuring out the best practices for their physical footprints. A new lab and pilot space that opened Monday in downtown Seattle allows them to glimpse what the office in the post-Covid world could look like.
Landlords and designers are adding more outdoor space to office buildings, so employees can actually work outside.
Before the pandemic, 83% of office space was allocated to individual work and 17% was dedicated to collaborative work. However, collaborative spaces were 25% more utilized than those for individual work.
Common areas will be increased and equipped with furniture that can be moved as needs change. Steelcase and Knoll, suppliers of office furniture, report strong interest in mobile tables, carts and partitions.
One of the biggest changes that has happened from our new working arrangements is that there is now no discernable separation of work and our nonwork spaces.
It has been the centerpiece of corporate life for decades, but as companies reshape workplaces, many may find dedicated individual work areas no longer make sense.
With remote work expected to become more common and office spaces set to be redesigned for more collaboration, it may be time to reinvent the humble desk. Here are five replacements that could catch on in the years to come.
Proximity and density go hand in hand – and pose some of the greatest design challenges for shared spaces that are intended to bring people together.
The companies that are creating the tech, the flexible office space, the modular, high-turnover conference rooms — they’re ready. But everyone else still seems to be in maintenance mode.
Longtime industry veteran Frank Lytle has some new products to safely get everyone back to the office in 2021.
Watch Dr. Lydia Bourouiba, director of MIT’s Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, as she talks with Steelcase CEO Jim Keane about what we know today on mitigating disease transmission at work.
More than nine months into this pandemic, we’ve adjusted to a new wave of remote work, swapping suits for sweatpants, desks for dining room tables, and commutes for couches.
The workplace and work patterns will see long-term changes over the next three-to-five years as a result of the pandemic.
Eighty-two percent of US based employers now believe the organization should absorb the cost of a home office setup for employees that work from home full-time.
Needless to say, working from home is here to stay. Whether that is working from home all the time or just having the options and flexibility to do either, there is no escaping this new normal we live in.
Most corporate offices remain depopulated, even empty, and landlords everywhere worry what the future holds.
Thanks to COVID-19, digital adoption rates have moved forward by five years in a matter of weeks — and the world of flexible working is no exception.
