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.
Whether its robots, artificial intelligence or automation, technology is changing how humans work. And, while some jobs we humans hold today may be doomed to disappear in the not-too-distant future, history has taught us this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, it may, in the long run, even be a good thing.
From the mouse that is freezing up your wrist and shoulders, the chair that is hurting your back to the aircon that is freezing you numb, Mrinal Shekar finds out how to deal with ergonomics issues that are a pain in the neck… literally.
We had a chance to speak with Raquel Sachser, Senior Designer at M Moser Associates‘ New York City offices, who has recently worked on the offices of Pivotal Labs, Raymond James, and Honeywell.
Raquel tells us about what branding in the contemporary office landscape looks like and how the firm works to help clients create an environment which matches the unique identity of each organization.
The workplace has gone through many shifts over the years, with style, layout, design, and furniture having a lot to do with that.
In exchange for an enhanced work environment, employees can sometimes expect to spend longer hours in the office and tied to a mobile device, albeit with a flexible schedule. Largely employees once experienced an "in and out" office-based occupation, with formal dress in roughly a 9 to 5 environment. Now there is an expectation of a relaxed office culture featuring casual dress, good food, a social conscious, and fun.
Art offers new perspectives on universal issues. It teaches empathy, often evokes strong emotions, and inspires critical thinking. It should come as no surprise that it also makes us kinder.
Big data, the cloud and advanced computing are some of the forces pulling information technology professionals out of the basement and into every aspect of business today. Listen as Terry Lenhardt, vice president and chief information officer for Steelcase, reveals how the evolution of IT is impacting employees, positioning companies for growth and changing the workplace.
According to “Wellbeing: A Bottom Line Issue” in Steelcase 360, IBM’s 2012 global CEO study revealed the need for companies to become “more collaborative, communicative, creative, flexible, and ultimately more innovative.”
Connecting personal values to company values is important to millennial workers, but there are more substantive, lasting ways to communicate these messages than a multi-million dollar Super Bowl ad. Using the workplace to tell a company’s story, its evolution and innovations can be a great way to show prospective young employees that a company is more than its profit margin.
Everyone wants the perfect office space, but no one wants to pay an exorbitant price tag to get it. But for businesses owners, finding the furniture of their dreams can be as simple as some creative product sourcing and strategically deciding where to splurge.
Following the lead of companies like Yelp, Twitter and Google, a growing number of companies from professional services firms like JLL to cybersecurity companies like Legitscript and health insurance group Medicare have their own, full-scale cafes with baristas serving gourmet lattes and cold-brewed coffee to their employees.
It may not be possible to buy happiness, but organizations around the world are attempting to offer it, for free, at work.The idea is that by creating a truly experiential environment, employers can enable employees to feel engaged, empowered and fulfilled whenever and wherever they do their work.
Corporations’ flight from the suburbs to cities can play out like a bad breakup: One party has moved on and found someone new, while the other puts on a brave face and pretends it doesn’t matter. Each may even be seen hastily courting others to show their previous partner that they’re okay. But there’s no way to avoid it. A once-promising relationship has ended.
work-flow fluid and relatively uninterrupted. So when a growing group of urban planning specialists at Urban Systems was bursting at the seams in their heritage office in the Yarrow Building, it was instinctive to plan ahead and set themselves up for renovation success. They turned to the design team at Monk Office to explore layout options, innovative furniture and design solutions. The reno involved gutting side-by-side spaces in the Yarrow building to create a brighter open plan corner office that would include both private and collaborative spaces.
With productivity an on-going concern for most companies, employee disengagement—resulting in more sick days, more turnover, and less profitability—significantly affects the bottom line. But according to a recent Gallup poll, only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged in their job. In a move to increase engagement, many companies are exploring the potential of workplace design to create a sensory-rich experience based on new technologies that enable employees to customize their experience of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste in line with personal preferences.
Office design is changing, and in doing so, reflects a desire for more social work environments, a movement toward flexible work hours and work spaces and a blending of home and office design.
In today's society, it's becoming less and less about what you look like while you're working and more about how you feel while you're working.
Activity-based working (ABW) is often mentioned in conjunction with cost savings. Executed well, this workplace design typology—wherein employees forego dedicated seats in favor of moving between different areas suited to particular tasks—can indeed save organizations money on real estate and office furnishings. However, ABW’s biggest benefits don’t show up on the bottom line as quickly or succinctly as those line items.
The state’s employers are pushing landlords to remodel office spaces with cool perks to attract younger workers.
