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.
Most organizations recognize that innovation and ingenuity stem from teamwork. Collaboration energizes people. By working together, employees come up with new and better ideas and discover how to streamline processes and improve output.
A lot of the news in workplace trends has been about the rise of the open workspace. However, it doesn’t take much research to find that there are lots of discussions about the downsides of an open plan.
State-of-the-art offices also blur the boundaries between work, life, and play, says Lise Newman, AIA, Director of SmithGroupJJR’s Workplace Practice.
Multiple studies examining the larger impact that small environmental changes have on humans highlight the growing benefits of biophilia in the workplace.
In the third installment of a 4-part event series, Haworth hosts a Q&A with an expert panel on designing offices that support today’s workers.
Living Office helped MASS Design Group create a workplace that reflects their purpose—to advocate for architecture that promotes dignity.
International innovators and research experts gathered in Germany to explore the importance of place to design thinking.
While we occasionally hear about companies abandoning their remote work programs (and almost all of those companies have larger, underlying problems they’re trying to fix), the long-term trend shows that many more companies are allowing many more employees to work remotely to some extent.
If tech was ever a niche, those days are long gone. It permeates every facet of our life. No wonder that in return, its workplaces increasingly are reshaping the landscapes around us.
Harnessing artificial intelligence in the workplace is the best way to improve overall efficiency, for both employees and employers.
Stress and sick leave cause problems within the workplace not only for the employers, but for the employees as well. But can a ‘healing office’ increase productivity?
What makes an office cool in 2017 is about more than aesthetics. It has just as much to do with options and openness. Chicago's most innovative, exciting workplaces are visually stunning, but they also prioritize flexibility, better ways to meet, views that are accessible to many rather than a few, and compelling reasons for employees to show up and work together (in person).
At the most basic level the workplace should offer shelter, sanitation (good toilets) and nutrition (coffee and places to eat). We then need the tools, equipment (technology and furniture) and facilities (meeting rooms) to complete the task in hand.
The ‘new kids’ in the workplace differ from previous generations and present major implications for workplace design.
How is the workplace changing in China? We explore the working habits of a multigenerational workforce, the impact of technology and recent design trends to help understand China’s developing work environments.
Workplace strategists and designers are applying lessons from psychology to create spaces that can be enjoyed by all personality types.
Employers must listen, understand what their workforce wants, and crucially, act on this feedback. It’s never been easier to find new job opportunities and if organisations don’t provide positive workforce experiences, their staff will go elsewhere.
Many of today’s offices are open, opting for unassigned seating options instead of private offices. Open workplaces are proven to promote collaboration and impromptu interactions needed for effective work and team dynamics; however, people still need quiet spaces away from distractions and disruptions in order to concentrate.
