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.
Soon, your work space might exist all in your head. That’s because computer-enabled devices will be able to project virtual, yet fully functional, representations of present-day physical office tools — a monitor, keyboard, mouse, phone, stapler, calculator, pens, paper and file cabinets — within your field of view.
At the heart of this strategy is the “Allen curve,” named for MIT researcher Thomas J. Allen’s observation that the closer people sit, the more they communicate, both in person and through other media. Allen found that people are four times more likely to communicate with a colleague who sits six feet away than with one who sits 60 feet away. Coworkers who sit 150 feet or more away from each other communicate as often as colleagues in separate cities.
Whether you conduct business as a brick and mortar store or are online e-commerce business - the physical place that your associates work in is a great contributor to how they treat your customers.
It’s a revelation that comes in tandem with the company’s new, enterprise-facing program called Oculus for Biz, which bills itself to be “an all-in-one solution for businesses looking to integrate VR for workplace training, collaboration, retail sales, and much more.
On September 19th, we were fortunate to be able to feature a panel of recently interviewed CEO’s to be a part of our continuing discussions about the workplace, from the viewpoint of the leadership positions of four uniquely diverse organizations.
Higher performing companies are more likely to have a wide range of facilities in place for their staff and include features that promote wellbeing such as showers, plants, quiet working spaces, variable lighting control, workstations that promote healthy posture, and social amenities.
Joyce Chan, head of sustainability in HOK’s London studio, describes how WELL is helping designers improve the health and well-being of building occupants.
Space has the ability to transform a company’s culture and provide an engaging employee experience vital to success in today’s competitive market. Delivering this experience can be enhanced with a multitude of technology and data sources, all promising the answer to workplace success.
New IoT workplace solutions will allow organizations to spot changes to work patterns in real-time and create solutions that best support people.
Offices have come a long way from bare-bones cubicles and indoor-outdoor carpet. Today’s designers are already thinking beyond the 21st century, incorporating nontraditional elements into layout and design that are revolutionizing workplace wellness and technological integration — all with an eye toward flexibility.
New evidence of a strong correlation between productivity, creativity and even profitability with employee working conditions, such as: light, air, noise, health, culture, design, movement and the quality of furniture have been established in a new report.
It’s probably safe to assume that since humans began meeting, the powerful ones have made others wait for them.
You can see too many faces from your standing desk, and your brain wants to connect with all of them.
Top Interior Designers balance collaboration and private workspaces to increase workplace productivity.
And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her.
When your business is helping clients solve their commercial real estate needs, your workplace presents unique opportunities to showcase your expertise and live by your own best practices.
To be more successful, productive and creative, Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, explores four rules for embracing meaningful work.
In today’s human-focused workspaces, space planning has changed radically; there is no one solution. Instead, architects are pushing aside the outdated concept of corner offices with windows for management and a mass of centrally located stations for everyone else.
Interestingly enough, with the rise of co-working locations, global connectivity, and collaboration technologies, many people believe that offices are going to die.
