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.
At a time when corporations are shifting their strategies to put more emphasis on innovation and creative competitiveness, office designers play an important role in providing the right settings to support that creative work.
Health-focused rating systems exist because occupant health is gaining more attention from business leaders. They are responding to employee demands for healthier workplaces.
Steelcase research reports only 54 percent of real estate is used. Now, new Financial Accounting Standards Board guidelines starting in 2019 require organizations that lease property for more than 12 months to recognize those leases as assets or liabilities. This big change to balance sheets makes it more important than ever for leaders to understand how and if spaces are being used.
Information technology professionals are helping lead digital transformations requiring new types of work.
In a connected workplace, users can perform daily tasks in any available space through a pooled virtualised desktop environment (VDI).
While technology, the rise of the contingent workforce and demand for innovation had forced workplaces to rapidly-adapt, face-to-face contact remained central to the economy.
So what might the workplace of the future look like? We asked six office-space experts from around the world to hazard a guess as to where, and how, we will we all be working in ten years from now.
The coworking phenomenon coupled with the ethos of our current time: purpose and impact driven, environmental consciousness, and entrepreneurship, will result in unimaginable scenarios for both work and the future of companies.
It seems that while office design evolves constantly to give employers better work spaces, businesses still don’t choose the right environment for their employees.
The office cubicle will never be the same. With Millennials set to make up half of the global workforce by 2020, they are driving interest in less conventional workplaces that offer flexible furniture and more space for collaboration — with nary a cubicle in sight.
With the rise of the open office has come the rise of what I’ll call the open office symphony: the consistent click-clack of a colleague who types a little bit too aggressively, the boisterous yammer of loud talkers, and intermittent laughs about something on Slack or Twitter or YouTube.
The new normal for office occupiers?This is where the most recent decision to ask people to work in a regional centre gets interesting. IBM is ostensibly doing it to encourage people to collaborate better, and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that physical proximity is an important component in the way people interact and share ideas.
The A.I. revolution comes in the less sexy form of machine learning algorithms, which essentially means giving a machine lots of examples from which it can learn how to mimic human behaviour. It relies on data to improve, which creates a powerful feedback loop: more data fed in makes it smarter, which allows it to make more sense of any new data, which makes it smarter, and on and on and on.
My trade is to ask questions about the workplace then make sense of the answers. That has been a particular challenge with the question, ‘what are offices today?’ What seems clear is that the various actors in the workplace ecosystem look at offices through very different eyes.
Contrary to popular belief, the majority of workers under the age of 35 actually prefer office life to working remotely, a new report has found.
Leaders who strike the right collaborative balance improve how work gets done. It’s not enough to adopt technologies and a culture that make it easier for workers to communicate and share knowledge. Teamwork should ultimately become a business enabler, so it’s critical to focus collaborative efforts on achieving real business outcomes that spur innovations and increase productivity.
Can a well-designed interior help to limit our work time and increase our resting time? Of course. Can we design spaces that almost force us to change our behavior? Probably not. Your job title is designer, not behavior psychologist. The individual in all of us will fight that way of thinking every time.
