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.
Bay Area industrial buildings are undergoing a transformation. Gone are the days of basic, plain-box buildings that provide a singular warehouse or distribution function. Distribution centers and warehouses are now incorporating showrooms and collaborative work environments.
With the latest wave of IoT (Internet of Things), the flexible workplace has gained stronger momentum through the impact of IT as the technological interface is no longer the definer of space, but it’s facilitator.
2017 saw continued growth of the flexible office industry and a broader range of offerings. While “Serviced Offices” have been around for decades (30+ years), the term “coworking” has been the media standard term for the last 10 years, and is likely here to stay according to the Global Workspace Association (GWA), a platform helping shared space operators, corporate real estate professionals, real estate investors, and service providers stay connected, current, and competitive.
Handcrafted items are experiencing resurgence in popular culture, but many of today's workspaces are void of craft. Inspired by the Maker Movement, Coalesse is redefining modern craft with new materials and methods that artfully disrupt norms and humanize the workpla
This redesign melds with the surrounding landscape, is suffused with natural light and achieved LEED Gold status.
A new report from ManpowerGroup Solutions claims that 40 percent of job candidates cite flexible working as one of their three most important career considerations. The firm polled 14,000 people in 19 countries. Among the countries surveyed, the US had the highest percentage of job candidates who want work flexibility (45 percent). A majority (63 percent) of workers said they believe they can work outside the office, and the number of men who want flexibility has significantly increased according to the study.
Surely, Baby Boomers and Millennials share more than biology and morphology. Or, is the mindset of the Millennial generation unlike any other in history? Do these young men and women have different attitudes and aptitudes, ideals and anxieties?
San Francisco is a city that likes to be at the cutting edge.
It’s part of the world’s most well-known innovation ecosystem where tech start-ups with the next big idea rub shoulders with market leading tech giants. Creativity isn’t limited to the office; it also spills on to the streets to create a diverse cultural scene.
Meeting deadlines and dealing with difficult situations is all part of office life yet the space in which employees get the hard work done can have a real impact on how they manage their workload.
The Sixers Innovation Lab Crafted by Kimball officially opened the doors Tuesday to its 8,000 square-foot lab space located at the base of the Business Operations Facility at the Philadelphia 76ers Training Complex. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Innovation Lab officially recognized its four diverse inaugural companies spanning the esports, daily fantasy sports, pet care and digital cause media industries.
“Human Experience is about how the work environment ultimately impacts company performance, not just its culture,” Dr. Marie Puybaraud, Head of Research, JLL. Read more: http://humanexperience.jll/#HumanExperience
Ed Nolan, managing director and practice leader for workplace strategy at JLL, discusses the power of human experience in the company’s recently completed Chicago headquarters refresh.
Companies should aim to create a sense of ‘brand loyalty’ among their employees in the same way that consumer businesses do with their customers, according the findings of a new study by international support services and construction group, Interserve.
It’s the paradox of the modern workplace: Everything has changed, but somehow everything’s still the same. We have dozens of new tools for sharing our work and communicating instantly with our colleagues. We’re editing a Google Doc together and then jumping into a Slack channel to discuss a hot topic (all while responding to a text from a customer). We’re uploading files to Dropbox and texting our bosses that we’ll be working on that big presentation over the weekend. Increasingly, all of our information is in the cloud.
Developers and landlords who invest to create offices that embody the occupier-driven focus on wellbeing will reap their rewards commercially while those that don’t face diminishing returns, according to a new report from Cushman & Wakefield.
Nationwide office fundamentals were strong in Q2 despite a marked slowdown in new job gains and a wave of new deliveries that came online during the quarter. “Even eight years into the cycle, office-using job creation remains healthy and solid in most markets. … However, we have blown past full employment in certain cities, which means job growth is going to slow in certain spots and accelerate in others as businesses broaden their search for talent,” Cushman & Wakefield Chief Economist Kevin Thorpe said in a statement.
Successful companies are, by definition, good at optimizing resources; that’s why space efficiency and staff productivity are vital to our clients. The greater challenge is seeing into the future—the confluence of factors is altering the landscape of workplace interiors—with enough clarity and urgency to re-evaluate long-held assumptions and drive innovation.
Ted Moudis Associates recently recognized by CoreNet Global New York City Chapter for its design of Foot Locker's new headquarters. The project won the 2017 Commercial Interior Project of the Year over 75,000 square feet. Foot Locker enlisted TMA's services to design a new 145,000-square-foot space over three floors at 330 West 34th Street that reflected its brand, creativity and corporate culture.
Adopting agile ways of working makes a company five times more likely than competitors to be a top performer, with faster growth and higher profits, according to a new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), “Boosting Performance Through Organization Design”. The report describes agile as ‘a concept borrowed from software development, describes workplace processes that emphasise speed, autonomy, and teamwork to get products to market faster’. It is one of six key factors of organisation design that set top performers apart from rivals, according to results of a BCG survey included in the report.
