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.
Colors have an immense effect on people, businesses, cultures, and things that we don't even realize.
Landlords and designers are adding more outdoor space to office buildings, so employees can actually work outside.
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.
The home office has become a sanctuary for productivity as many people continue to work from the place where they live, but with COVID vaccinations ramping up and industries eyeing a return to normalcy, our once standard view of offices could revert back to a phase that peaked in the 1980s and 90s.
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.
For office developers to be successful in this fluid environment, it is necessary to predict what the environment will look like in three to five years.
We can draw on the lessons of history to understand how the world of work might respond to the current upheavals in the way we work.
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.
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.
In looking at disruption in other industries, ThinkLab predicts the biggest future innovations in the design industry will come from process innovation, not product innovation with Kelly Weertz, Elizabeth Von Lehe, Matthew Lieb, and AJ Paron. This episode is sponsored by: Carnegie Fabrics.
Just what is a dynamic workplace, you ask? It’s an adjustable environment, one that is constantly adapting to meet the needs of the people that use it. It has flexible desk seating, or seating that combines fixed and flexible options.
Although we can trace forms of clerical work at least back to at least the Ancient Egyptians, the office as we understand it only came into being in the early 20th Century.
