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.
According to an annual public survey of more than 5,500 people who work remotely or are interested in doing so – compiled by a flexible job search and info platform called FlexJobs – the top factor many professionals use to determine which job to choose is whether the prospective employer can help them achieve the ever-desirable work/life balance.
Research published to mark the beginning of World Green Building Week suggests that businesses in Europe could realise savings of up to $243 billion in reduced rental costs alone if their office buildings were refurbished to the most efficient standards.
Simplicity is all. And it is this that is the underlying principle behind ‘Design and Build’; often the best, fastest and least expensive method of developing and implementing an office design project, yet also one of the least understood, especially with regard to its ability to deliver exceptional design.
Business is, by definition, geared towards profit. So how then to justify spending money on employee’s leisure zones?
Programming for outdoor space presents a unique set of considerations as compared to programming for an indoor environment.
Professionals, and especially millennials, increasingly prefer flexible office spaces that enable social interactions and accommodate all kinds of work styles.
Although Workthere is independent and acts with the flexibility of a standalone brand, it certainly benefits from its affiliation with a real estate company of considerable reputation.
Investing in the wellbeing of your people improves the bottom line and boosts employee retention and attraction. There is a reason that workplace wellness is a $6 billion industry in the United States.
The 436,000-square-foot office space will be Facebook's first outpost in San Francisco. The company currently shuttles thousands of employees from the city to its headquarters in Menlo Park, which is located about 35 miles south.
IA Senior Workplace Strategist Jim Truhan and Design Director Shane Katsoolis discuss the qualities that make workplaces a destination for employees, including the outlook of the future of the workplace .
Poppin has worked with over 20,000 business customers, including LinkedIn, Squarespace, Kate Spade, and Shutterfly, to help them create work environments that appeal to the type of employees they wish to attract.
The best meeting is spent walking, like in The West Wing. (The fact that all West Wingers seem on the verge of a heart attack is apparently irrelevant.) Mike Loosemore of the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health rather desperately advises regularly standing up and getting a glass of water. Neanderthals must be laughing themselves sick at what Homo sapiens has to do just to survive.
There is a shocking level of dissatisfaction among the workforce according to a new global report from Leesman, which looks at how a poorly planned workplace can have a negative impact on employees, and inhibit their ability to perform. The findings show that while employers continue to face economic uncertainty, many of their employees are having to endure workplaces that fail to support their basic working day, obstructing their ability to positively contribute to business success.
How an office space is designed and used has become an important brand differentiator and tool for attracting—and retaining—quality staff.
From shape-shifting sofas to virtual reality marketing visualisations, a new wave of technology breakthroughs is making an impact on the way we design and work in offices
A growing number of employees are frustrated in their attempts to adopt flexible working by the inability of employers to offer it, a new study claims.
Coca-Cola’s campus approach mimics what a lot of tech giants are doing: ensuring employees never have to leave the campus for their day-to-day needs.
Designers are always striving to put customer experience at the heart of their projects – and rightly so. But all-too-often, the teams that deliver these experiences are sidelined. What’s missing is a true love for employees.
