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TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
Manufacturer, NeoCon 2021
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Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ...

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.

Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’
Manufacturer, People
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Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief ...

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.

Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer
Manufacturer
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Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to ...

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.

Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to provide air quality monitoring and viral detection technology
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

For over 50 years, Heller offered leading designers the opportunity to work with new technologies to create innovative products. Those were great partnerships and they resulted in great products.

Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

Working Life

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4 Ways Your Office Is Crushing Your Creativity

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4 Ways Your Office Is Crushing Your Creativity

Is your office stifling your creativity? A recent survey, conducted by the global architecture firm Gensler, suggests as much. The good news: You can do something about it.

The online survey, called the 2016 Workplace Survey, sought to uncover whether a workplace can make employees more creative and entire organizations more innovative. It drew more than 4,000 people from 11 different industries including tech, government, finance, media, and biological sciences. The respondents had to work in offices some of the time and for companies of more than 100 employees. About two-thirds of those surveyed believed that they work in spaces that crush creativity and innovation.

Read the article on fastcodesign.com >

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Wellness Programs Take Aim At Workplace Stress

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Wellness Programs Take Aim At Workplace Stress

Stress has long been shown to increase the risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes and a number of mental health problems. And a recent poll finds that a substantial number of working adults say stress is a critical health issue they face at work. The poll was conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. So what are employers doing about it? Fifty-one percent of the people in our poll said their workplace has a formal wellness or health improvement program.

Read the article on npr.org >

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Millennials will stay engaged in the workplace if they feel they are valued

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Millennials will stay engaged in the workplace if they feel they are valued

The “ability to make an impact on the business” matters notably more to millennial employees than their salary and other benefits. According to a new survey from recruitment firm Korn Ferry, income comes in last on their list. The Second Annual Korn Ferry Futurestep Millennial Survey highlights the younger generation’s workplace preferences, including a need for feedback and a willingness to work long hours. In the survey, which asks what will make a millennial choose one job over another, 38 percent said “visibility and buy-in to the mission and vision of the organisation.” The survey also found that consistent feedback is key to managing millennials, with three quarters of respondents saying this generation needs more feedback than other generations. However, only 13 percent of respondents said they offered more feedback sessions to this group, and less than half offered mentorship opportunities.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net > 

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What Pokémon GO Teaches Us About Winning In The Workplace

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What Pokémon GO Teaches Us About Winning In The Workplace

Even just a few decades ago, there was a very distinct correlation between compensation and a paycheck. You worked and you got paid. If you stayed at the same company and continued to work, you were likely promoted and paid more. Pretty simple. That’s how you “won” at work – you got a steady paycheck and potentially moved up the ladder.

Read the article on forbes.com >

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The Scientific Reason Why Coworking May Be The Future Of Work

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The Scientific Reason Why Coworking May Be The Future Of Work

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan’s Steven M. Ross School of Business led by business professor Dr. Gretchen Spreitzer, who also directs the Center for Positive Organizations, has spent the last four years studying coworking. In the process, they've interviewed the founders of coworking companies around the U.S. and surveyed more than 200 workers from dozens of coworking spaces; one team member spent six months as a coworking member.

Their research uncovered two key benefits to the coworking experience, both of which have been linked to improved employee performance. Simplified somewhat, it comes down to flexibility and autonomy without dispensing with meaningful community.

Read the article on fastcompany.com >

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What Flexible Workspaces Have Taught Corporates About Fostering Community

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What Flexible Workspaces Have Taught Corporates About Fostering Community

With companies and businesses adopting new workplace design and models, they’ve been able to replicate the interactions that are common in a flexible workspace, where open plan environments foster interaction and collaboration. Whereas in traditional offices, where employees were separated by department or speciality, implementing new design models has allowed staff from different areas to connect and collaborate with one another–fostering a stronger sense of community and opening up even more the available communication channels.

Read the article on officingtoday.com >

How to automate work life in the virtual economy without compromising on quality

How to automate work life in the virtual economy without compromising on quality

Lately, new age virtually driven businesses have become all the rage. Everyone is talking about them. But automation has nothing to do with being lazy, careless, or complacent. You can never fully automate everything, and even if you could — you should not. Nor does talk of a virtual economy immediately link to the cliche of a cheap, low-quality workforce in emerging economies desperate for dollars.

Read the article on livemint.com >

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The Price of Business and Workplace Wellbeing

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The Price of Business and Workplace Wellbeing

Houston’s business radio KTEK 1110 AM recently hosted Manthy on its show The Price of Business to discuss workplace wellbeing. Host William Edmondson and the voice of radioIA discuss factors from technology to community to activity-based planning that have changed the way offices—and by extension those businesses—function today.

Listen to the podcast on interiorarchitects.com >

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Substantial growth in 21st Century self employment in the UK

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Substantial growth in 21st Century self employment in the UK

The 21st Century has seen an explosion of self employment in the UK, and most people who have become self employed have done so for positive reasons, claims a new report from the UK Government’s Office for National Statistics. According to the Trends in Self Employment Report, there are now more than 4.7 million people classified as self employed, around 15 percent of the workforce. There has been a marked upturn since the 2008 recession, an increase of 730,000 over that period. The trend to self employment has been evident since the turn of the Millennium when around 3.2 million people were classified as self employed. Between 2001 and 2015, part time self employment grew by 88 percent, compared to 25 percent for full time work, partly because of the growing number of workers choosing part time self employment before retirement. The report describes the changes as structural, which suggests that the growth will continue.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net >

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Too Much Information: The Unintended Consequences of a Hyper-Connected Workplace

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Too Much Information: The Unintended Consequences of a Hyper-Connected Workplace

It’s open season for the workplace.

The UK has one of the highest percentage of open plan work environments in the world, and has, on the surface, appeared used to and comfortable with this way of working for quite some time. Look a little deeper, however, and this may not be entirely true. While the physical infrastructure of the workplace has evolved more towards an open plan environment, it is the speed at which the metaphysical infrastructure of today’s workplace has rapidly transformed our approach to work that is having a profound impact on people’s ability to work effectively.

Read the article on linkedin.com >

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Health / Designing for better indoor air quality

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Health / Designing for better indoor air quality

People around the world spend increasing amounts of time in air-tight environments, buildings where a focus on energy efficiency often emphasises the value of centrally controlled conditions over indoor air quality. I think we need to make indoor air quality a higher priority during the design process if we’re to successfully support occupants’ health and wellbeing. 

Studies by the American Environmental Protection Agency have found that indoor air pollution can potentially be significantly worse than outdoors. Given that people spend up to 90% of their time indoors, the quality and effects of indoor air needs more attention. Indeed, public health awareness of indoor air quality lags well behind existing concerns about city smog and vehicles’ production of carbon monoxide and other pollutants.

Read the article on thoughts.arup.com >

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This Is the Future: Workplaces that Make You Healthier

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This Is the Future: Workplaces that Make You Healthier

Companies are building offices that aren’t just better for the environment but their workers, too.

When McKesson decided to revamp its headquarters in Richmond, Va., it knew it was time for a radical change. The drug distribution giant also knew it needed a workplace that was not only inspiring but reflected its primary mission: making people healthier. That’s what led the company to one of the latest workplace trends: WELL Building Certification.

Read the article on fortune.com >

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FREEDOM AND CHOICE IN THE NEW WORKPLACE

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FREEDOM AND CHOICE IN THE NEW WORKPLACE

It may be that it is not a lack of choices, but rather, a lack of freedom that is hindering workplace transformation. If this is the case, the creation of choices in terms of when, where, and how to work may not be enough. In this article, I explore how we can create a better context for choice in the workplace.

Read the article on workdesign.com > [paywall]

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