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.
Those whose offices are arranged by departments are more likely to strongly agree that the current lack of flexibility in the office layout leads to delays in getting projects out of the door, than those whose offices are arranged in project teams (33 percent vs 17 percent).
Although remote work is more prevalent in the tech-sphere, it can be found in many other industries. If you’re a developer or programmer, you don’t have to waste time looking for a “real” job. You can get gigs through services like Upwork, but you can also work for a specific company.
Rapid growth at the online retail giant has had a domino effect on Seattle’s economy, helping create one of the strongest real-estate markets in the country.
The legacy of this fixed view is the enduring 20th Century approach based on an idea of desk-bound employees with a computer, whereas the pace of change in technology and working practices means that the relationship between people and place is changing all the time.
As a profusion of environmental sensors becomes increasingly available, indoor air quality is something building managers can track and manage.
Certain things seem to go out of fashion, only to come around again: suede and velvet clothing for men, vinyl records, the underhanded free throw in basketball. But Brian Walker, the CEO of furniture company Herman Miller, is convinced that the traditional office–with executives stuck behind closed doors and most everyone else assigned to a fixed workstation–is gone for good.
The new model eschews the common dogmas of work life: Everybody gets an office, or everyone gets a cubicle, or everybody gets a seat on a workbench. A diversity of spaces, experts say, is more productive, and the new concept is called “activity-based workplace design,” tailoring spaces for the kind of work done.
Airborne sound comprises sound generated within a room and transmitted through the air. Typically, this includes people talking, typing, walking and moving objects; phones ringing; noise from heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment; printers; and sound/music systems.
NextGen Work is a global phenomenon. Emerging markets like India and Mexico are leading the way with the greatest openness to freelance, contract, temporary or independent contract work (97 percent), with mature markets – including the U.S. (94 percent), with the UK and Australia– close behind (90 and 92 percent respectively). Germany, Netherlands and Japan are more resistant to NextGen Work.
Adeptly avoiding the clichés of office design for start-ups, Float Studio instead creates spaces that capture each company’s founding essence—all on a tight budget.
Research tells us that the workplaces people want to come to look like the one above—offices with plenty of bright, informal public areas and less space set aside for personal workstations.
From open office to bringing the outdoors in, tech companies have long been trendsetters in office design.
Much like the hype around Millennials, the entrance of Gen Z into the workforce promises to once again push boundaries, reshape office design, work style and how companies and buildings themselves seek to remain relevant and competitive in their respective industries and markets.
A new research paper published in the Journal of Corporate Real Estate claims that while many organizations are focussed on creating workplaces that foster creativity, the results tend to ignore nuances about what makes people creative and instead focus on faddish ideas and playful, domestic design features to invoke ideas of creativity that may or may not be effective in practice
“Creativity is an inclusive process in which something new emerges,” says Ralf Groene, general manager of Microsoft Devices. “As creativity becomes central to our work, the importance of where we do it is being reaffirmed. The cloud and mobile technologies may be untethering us from the office, but our need and desire to do creative work is luring us back in.”
With the increase in awareness of biophilia, the theory that there is an instinctive bond between humans and nature, today’s workplaces place an emphasis on bringing elements of nature into the office. Research by Steelcase further proves that incorporating green colors can help improve worker wellbeing. Since we often see green naturally in the world, Wasabi’s organic and vibrant qualities have the ability to relax and awaken us. Green symbolizes life and vitality, bringing a breath of fresh air into indoor areas.
Home rental website Airbnb has taken cues from its listings around the world when designing additional office spaces at its headquarters in San Francisco.
