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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
Source: CFN News Desk
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
Source: CFN News Desk
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
Source: CFN News Desk
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

Workplace

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RE-GREEN WHEN YOU RENEW YOUR OFFICE

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RE-GREEN WHEN YOU RENEW YOUR OFFICE

Stale air. Outdated lighting that’s a little too light. Stuffy, tired workspaces that used to be inspiring. Every office needs a makeover now and then, and that can mean a perfect chance not only to refresh the office experience and renew employee engagement — but also to re-green. Yes, re-green: after all, sustainability features have come a long way, too. Overwhelming evidence tells us that green office space is not only a win for the planet and your bottom line (think: energy savings), but also offers important employee health and wellness benefits.

Via workdesign.com >

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London’s sky high property costs driving uptake of coworking, claims report

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London’s sky high property costs driving uptake of coworking, claims report

Start-up tech firms in London face the world’s highest property costs and the result is a boom in coworking, according to a report from Knight Frank. The research, undertaken as part of Knight Frank’s 2017 Global Cities Report, examines the cost of leasing and fitting-out 600 sq ft of office space in the tech and creative districts of the world’s leading cities. Intense demand for space in Shoreditch, London, has seen start-up office costs soar with Knight Frank calculating 600 sq ft of office space to cost US$66,706 per year – the highest of any creative district in the world. This is followed by Brooklyn in New York (US$62,736), Mid-Market in San Francisco (US$61,680), 1st, 2nd and 9th Districts in Paris (US$57,426) and the Seaport District in Boston (US$50,700). However, London’s burgeoning coworking market also shows how firms are using the model to overcome the challenge of finding somewhere to work at an appropriate cost.

Via workplaceinsight.net >

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Are workers ready for the workplace of the future?

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Are workers ready for the workplace of the future?

The workplace of the future will be here soon, the experts tell us, and it will be flexible, digital and mobile.

CEOs want the increased productivity that collaboration and mobility provide, and CIOs are leading a digital transformation in most companies that will support those organisational practices with the right technology.

Via information-age.com >

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FROM CLASSROOMS TO BOARDROOMS: KEY ELEMENTS FOR LEARNING AND WORKING SPACES

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FROM CLASSROOMS TO BOARDROOMS: KEY ELEMENTS FOR LEARNING AND WORKING SPACES

Today’s classrooms and offices are catering to a different world, a world driven by the Internet, smart phones, and other innovations unimaginable during the Industrial Revolution. There is also new research available that points to more effective approaches in teaching and learning.

Educators have realized that learning is more effective when students are engaged with one another (active learning) rather than when students sit and watch a lecture (passive learning). Retention rates are significantly higher when students are working together in collaborative, hands-on experiences. At the heart of active, project-based learning is the effort to develop students’ non-cognitive skills. These social/emotional skills — including communication, collaboration, creativity, perseverance and critical thinking — are uniquely fostered by this kind of active learning.

Via workdesign.com >

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How Companies Are Getting Smarter About Workplace Strategy

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How Companies Are Getting Smarter About Workplace Strategy

Before you can talk about workplace design, you first have to understand your business strategy – then create a workplace to accommodate it, JLL managing director, workplace strategy – Americas, Bernice Boucher tells GlobeSt.com. The Leland, NC-based executive is moderating the “Optimizing the Workplace for Maximum Impact” session during NAIOP’s Commercial Real Estate Conference 2016  here September 26-28. We spoke with her exclusively about the ways that developers and users are optimizing the workplace, what new methods in design and development are helping to achieve this result, and how workplace design will continue to change.

Via globest.com >

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Healthy Buildings Enliven Bottom Line

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Healthy Buildings Enliven Bottom Line

The US design and construction industry is gearing up for wider adoption of building practices that prioritize the physical, mental and social well-being of tenants and occupants, says a new report from Delos, a wellness real estate and technology firm, and Dodge Data & Analytics. Titled “The Drive Toward Healthier Buildings 2016,” the report also finds that the owners of such buildings have already begun to realize business benefits, such as increased leasing rates and higher asset values.

Via globest.com >

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Productive mobility is poised to give business a virtual boost

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Productive mobility is poised to give business a virtual boost

Throughout history, new technologies have constantly changed the way we’ve worked. They’ve been responsible for full-scale revolutions. And continued investments have come as corporate demand for worker productivity drives tech spending.

We should expect augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to eventually attract increased spending in the enterprise as they combine with new mobile network advancements to make an emerging trend called “productive mobility” a reality.

Productive mobility is about being as productive out of the office as inside, and as productive in a virtual instance as a physical one.

Via techcrunch.com >

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Why Shouldn’t We Feel Energised at the End of the Work Day?

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Why Shouldn’t We Feel Energised at the End of the Work Day?

Amongst the many questions included in the recent 2016 UK Workplace Survey was a seemingly innocent question asking respondents to what extent they agreed with the following statement: “At the end of a typical day in the office, I feel energised.”

When the results came in, we discovered that just 33 percent of respondents felt energized at the end of a typical working day. “But who expects to feel energized?” I hear you ask. Perhaps you’re surprised that the number is even that high. The reality is, the majority of us are leaving the office feeling drained, and this is having a negative impact on our overall wellbeing, both physically and psychologically.

Via gensleron.com >

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Tech Trends of 2016: Lifestyle as Currency

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Tech Trends of 2016: Lifestyle as Currency

Tech companies see the workplace as a physical experience that serves as an extension of brand and culture. A company dictates the brand, but the individuals dictate the culture, and when the two merge, it creates a style that is authentically them. By moving towards designed spaces that are much more purposeful and memorable, tech companies are placing focus on the high caliber of their work and their employees. 

via gensler.com >

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The Plan: A Look Inside JLL’s New WELL-Built Offices at 28 Liberty Street

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The Plan: A Look Inside JLL’s New WELL-Built Offices at 28 Liberty Street

The new digs, which opened in July, will be the first office up for WELL certification, a roughly three-year-old ranking service by the International WELL Building Institute that tries to encourage healthy office designs and eco-friendly features. There are nine other projects—commercial and residential—seeking WELL certification in the city, according to the group’s website. (JLL’s rival—CBRE—was the first to receive certification in the fall 2013 at their global headquarters in Los Angeles.)

Via commercialobserver.com >

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U.S. Building Owners Show Strong Support for Better Designed, Healthier Buildings to Improve Employee Wellness

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U.S. Building Owners Show Strong Support for Better Designed, Healthier Buildings to Improve Employee Wellness

The design and construction of healthier buildings is a key business benefit for building owners, developers, managers and investors, according to the results of a new SmartMarket Report released today by Dodge Data & Analytics and to which the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a contributing partner.

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New Workplaces Ascend with Pilot Projects

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New Workplaces Ascend with Pilot Projects

Many organizations are making fundamental shifts in their workplaces and, often, these environments haven’t changed in 10 years, 20 years, or more. For those companies, change is not incremental—it is transformational. A new workplace can constitute a significant investment in real estate, and bring to bear results of many layers of decisions. This is where pilots come in. The results these test environments produce can illuminate ways for organizations to stay agile and dynamic in our rapidly changing world.

For many businesses, a new workplace must support the organization as they evolve and thrive in the global economy, as well as attract and retain the talent that is a primary force behind any company’s success. When starting the process of a new workplace project, corporations face the question: How much change is appropriate?  With the guidance of their corporate real estate teams companies must weigh the risks associated with all degrees of change.

Via interiorarchitects.stfi.re >

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VIDEO: The 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Work

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VIDEO: The 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Work

Everything we know about the future of work is being shaped by five trends: globalization, mobility, changing demographics, new behaviors, and mobility. For the first time these five trends are coming together to force organizations to change the way they think about how work gets done. Is your organization ready for these five trends and for the future of work?

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This employee ID badge monitors and listens to you at work — except in the bathroom

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This employee ID badge monitors and listens to you at work — except in the bathroom

Do you hog office conversations? Or not talk enough? Does your voice squeal?

Do you sit very still at your desk all day? Or do you fidget under stress? Where do you go in the office? How much time do you spend there? To whom do you talk?

An employee badge can now measure all this and more, all with the goal of giving employers better information to evaluate performance. Think of it as biometrics meets the boss.

Via washingtonpost.com >

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HOW TO BUILD HEALTH AND WELLNESS INTO THE PRIVATE OFFICE

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HOW TO BUILD HEALTH AND WELLNESS INTO THE PRIVATE OFFICE

The open office trend is growing in popularity worldwide. However, huge numbers of workplaces still have private offices.

If you’ve got a private office, chances are you spend the majority of your head-down work time in isolation, without the social or collaborative benefits offered by an open office. This makes it even more important to design your office specifically to address common workplace health and wellness concerns (both physical and emotional).

Via blog.millikencarpet.com >

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CoreNet report sets out how technology will reshape corporate real estate

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CoreNet report sets out how technology will reshape corporate real estate

The speed of today’s technological advances is dramatically reshaping the way that corporations manage and use their real estate. It’s a dynamic that has significant consequences for the workplace, urban development and the overall lifestyle of the average worker. Those are the unsurprising conclusions of a new report from trade association CoreNet Global, which was discussed this week at the organisation’s 2016 Summit – EMEA, held in Amsterdam. As ever, the devil is in the detail so the report is worth exploring to get a sense of just how imminent many of the changes will be, especially because they will converge to create a perfect storm of change for the workplace. This marks the new era out from the past when technology developed in more predictable ways. Several CoreNet Global Gold Strategic Partners contributed to the report including CBRE, Deloitte, ISS, JLL, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, Sodexo and Steelcase.

Via workplaceinsight.net >

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The office experiment: Can science build the perfect workspace?

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The office experiment: Can science build the perfect workspace?

In late May, eight employees of Mayo Clinic's medical-records department packed up their belongings, powered down their computers and moved into a brand new office space in the heart of Rochester, Minnesota. There, they made themselves at home — hanging up Walt Disney World calendars, arranging their framed dog photos and settling back into the daily rhythms of office life.

Then, researchers started messing with them. They cranked the thermostat up — and then down. They changed the colour temperature of the overhead lights and the tint of the large, glass windows. They played irritating office sounds through speakers embedded in the ceilings: a ringing phone, the clack of computer keys, a male voice saying, “medical records”, as if answering the phone.

Via nature.com >

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Open-Plan Offices Make Workers More Unfriendly and Less Productive

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Open-Plan Offices Make Workers More Unfriendly and Less Productive

Workers in open-plan offices are more distracted, unfriendly and uncollaborative than those in traditional workplaces, according to the latest industry survey.

Employees who have to share their office with more than two people experience high levels of colleague distrust and form fewer co-worker friendships than those working in single-occupancy offices, according to the new report from Auckland University of Technology.

Via dezeen.com >

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Are We Entering a Furniture Renaissance?

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Are We Entering a Furniture Renaissance?

Take a moment to think about the first desktop computer you used in a professional setting. Chances are, it was a lifeless taupe or black box and clunky keyboard attached to a bulky computer screen that weighed more than a healthy teenager, all connected with a pile of cords that looked like a plate of spaghetti.

“Now,” said computer designers to the office furniture industry, “build something to hold this stuff. And while you are at it, manage all those cords and the the power needed to run it all.”

That’s the point when furniture became nothing more than a prop for technology tools. I recently looked through a book on workplace designs from the mid-1980s. I immediately wanted to assign blame for the sea of cubicles and sterile office chairs found in that era of the office. Should we blame the office furniture makers for creating lifeless panel systems? Perhaps it is better to blame the interior design industry for bastardizing the products the industry created and applying them in the wrong way?

Via Ki.com >

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