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.
Work is inseparable part of our lives. What we do in life often defines what kind of interests and what kind of personalities we have. Indeed, introverts tend to choose and like a different type of work than extroverts do, and so on.
Does your workspace feel inviting or does it make you want to cringe? Remember, where we work, we live as well.
Businesses of all shapes and sizes are shaking up their office environments to enhance productivity and wellbeing. Follow these simple steps to create a workspace employees will love.
Many companies and office owners claim to know what workers want from their office space. But one London flexible workspace firm is undertaking some proper academic research to uncover the answer and give itself a competitive edge in the co-working world.
Jodi Williams and Stefana Scinta, CallisonRTKL’s top Workplace Strategists and ‘Change Management Punching Bags’, share their most memorable stories about helping clients prepare for and adjust to new workplace environments.
How do green buildings impact your thinking, sleep quality and health? You can soon find out for yourself. Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and SUNY Upstate Medical University are recruiting 100 office buildings from around the world to be part of a new, first-of-its-kind study to examine the effects of global indoor environments on employee productivity and health.
Although millennials have reshaped the workplace, employers can harness the new energy and use it to their advantage.
In the U.S., our workplace culture reinforces the need to be productive, and for many of us this means always ‘doing’ something to that end.
Some people like to work from home because it frees them from distractions. The workplace certainly can be distracting, but how much focus time do people really need?
The most productive sector – the professional services industry – is the most likely to offer employees flexible hours, with 36 percent of professional services employees saying it is available to them.
New research shows having personal control of your workspace, such as lighting and temperature, improves overall workplace productivity and engagement.
Office design is changing for the better with companies like Seattle’s ATLAS Workbase leading the way.
The panel, moderated by Kay Sargent, HOK director of workplace, and Kimberly Smith, Knoll senior director of workplace strategy, will discuss trends impacting the industry and brainstorm solutions that respond to the challenges facing the contemporary defense workplaces.
While many of the stereotypes associated with the word “millennial” are considered negative, research shows that millennials work hard in any career they enter.
The personal computer was supposed to kill the office and liberate us from hellish commutes to the city. But the average American commute has only increased since then. Could virtual reality finally change that?
Bright open office spaces and millennials working at coffee shops are popular images conjured by the phrase "future of work." Workspace and telecommuting continue to be hot topics for debate among executives.
The building is not a metaphor for open systems, or creative flow made concrete. It is a made object. Apple’s success has been built on higher-order industrialisation; not just designing beautiful objects that do all manner of new things but producing them in incredible numbers and at consistent quality. Its new building is, in some ways, the ultimate Apple product, in places using the same materials the company uses in its laptops and phones.
The workforce participation of older workers will increase, yet the overall labor force growth rate will decline by next year.
Not immune from the changes taking place all around us, the modern law office is experiencing transformation that reflects design trends seen in the broader world of commercial interior design.
