It’s a revelation that comes in tandem with the company’s new, enterprise-facing program called Oculus for Biz, which bills itself to be “an all-in-one solution for businesses looking to integrate VR for workplace training, collaboration, retail sales, and much more.
IS MUSIC GOOD FOR WORKPLACE PRODUCTIVITY?
The New Workplace: Its Value as a Leadership Tool
On September 19th, we were fortunate to be able to feature a panel of recently interviewed CEO’s to be a part of our continuing discussions about the workplace, from the viewpoint of the leadership positions of four uniquely diverse organizations.
Office design could be affecting staff performance
Higher performing companies are more likely to have a wide range of facilities in place for their staff and include features that promote wellbeing such as showers, plants, quiet working spaces, variable lighting control, workstations that promote healthy posture, and social amenities.
Don’t forget the outliers in office ergonomics
How the WELL Building Standard Is Changing HOK’s Approach to Design
Joyce Chan, head of sustainability in HOK’s London studio, describes how WELL is helping designers improve the health and well-being of building occupants.
Make Your Workplace Data Work for You: Keys for Data-Informed Strategies.
Space has the ability to transform a company’s culture and provide an engaging employee experience vital to success in today’s competitive market. Delivering this experience can be enhanced with a multitude of technology and data sources, all promising the answer to workplace success.
Q+A: Creating the Next Evolution of the Workplace
New IoT workplace solutions will allow organizations to spot changes to work patterns in real-time and create solutions that best support people.
Airbnb US Headquarters Expansion – San Francisco
Airbnb‘s in-house architecture practice of ten, the Airbnb Environments Team, has designed their new headquarters expansion in collaboration with WRNS Studio, located in San Francisco, CA.
Why Choose Contract Furniture for Ancillary Spaces?
Let’s be honest—the type of use an office lounge, for example, endures is rougher than anything a residential sofa sees. People simply don’t treat public furniture as kindly as they treat their furniture at home.
Say goodbye to the cubicle farm: Office designers focus on branding, wellness
Offices have come a long way from bare-bones cubicles and indoor-outdoor carpet. Today’s designers are already thinking beyond the 21st century, incorporating nontraditional elements into layout and design that are revolutionizing workplace wellness and technological integration — all with an eye toward flexibility.
Working conditions and office design shown to impact on employee performance
New evidence of a strong correlation between productivity, creativity and even profitability with employee working conditions, such as: light, air, noise, health, culture, design, movement and the quality of furniture have been established in a new report.
Signs your office is hurting your productivity and mental well-being
You can see too many faces from your standing desk, and your brain wants to connect with all of them.
Open Office Designs Can Be Stressful And Disruptive
Top Interior Designers balance collaboration and private workspaces to increase workplace productivity.
Why working from home should be standard practice
And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her.
JLL Transforming Work, Optimizing Place, Enhancing Experiences
When your business is helping clients solve their commercial real estate needs, your workplace presents unique opportunities to showcase your expertise and live by your own best practices.
Attract more clients with a beautifully designed office space
In today’s human-focused workspaces, space planning has changed radically; there is no one solution. Instead, architects are pushing aside the outdated concept of corner offices with windows for management and a mass of centrally located stations for everyone else.
How The Physical Environment Impacts Employee Experience
Interestingly enough, with the rise of co-working locations, global connectivity, and collaboration technologies, many people believe that offices are going to die.
The Growing Demand for Franchised Healthcare
As healthcare systems and healthtech companies continue to push the boundaries of healthcare delivery, consumers will have increasing choice. Design that fully integrates the brand story of these facilities is vital to maintaining customer relationships.
Watch: West Elm is Where Employees Feel at Home
Offering stylish furnishings from globally responsible sources, West Elm grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass).