The door desk continues to occupy a central place in Amazon’s internal mythology, with the company handing out an internal “Door Desk Award” for cost-saving ideas.
Amazon has come a long way from its early headquarters near a heroin-needle exchange
Design Q&A: New HOK Project Boosts Collaboration
There is a cultural movement underway — people are seeking out more informal, inspiring and flexible workspaces to get their work done.
Trends with Benefits: What’s Cool in Office Design
Oh the times, they are indeed a-changin’, and the cubicle walls in today’s workplace are coming down (with the option of popping right back up, if needed).
Subscription, subscription, subscription: the evolution of commercial property
Location of workplace matters when it comes to workplace performance
Employers can make major performance and productivity improvements by taking a more strategic approach to where they place their people, a new report suggests.
Taking One for the Team: Companies Foster Collaboration
Collaboration is good for business but is seldom easy; how companies shed silos and get employees communicating.
New Research: UK offices lack spaces that enhance productivity & wellbeing
The workplace can change and impact productivity, happiness and engagement, both positively and negatively.
How Office Design Can Boost Your Productivity
Microsoft is doubling down on the suburban office park no one wants
The investment in Redmond also assumes workers will be be using offices in the future, when it’s clear many won’t.
Microsoft announces huge expansion to ‘modernize’ its Redmond HQ
The work, which is scheduled to take five to seven years and will reportedly cost billions, will see 12 buildings knocked down and replaced with larger structures in addition to new ones.
WeWork creeps further into time and space with Meetup purchase
New York-based Meetup, which has 35 million members on its platform, will give WeWork access to a giant new audience: people who may eventually be converted to WeWorkers.
OECD publishes major new work on measuring the quality of the working environment
The OECD has published a major new report which it claims set out an internationally agreed set of guidelines to measure the quality of the working environment.
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" hilariously nails the power of the boss's desk
Although they’re becoming rare artifacts now that open offices and flat structures are firmly in vogue, larger-than-life corner-office desks still live in some corporate spaces.
Rethinking the open office
What You Need to Know about Multi-Sensory Office Design
Workplaces need to be consumer-centric and focus on the usability and comfortability of the space. Multi-sensory design engages all five senses and transforms spaces to support our experience at work.
Steelcase CEO Q+A: New Center Enhances Agility
A new Steelcase Learning and Innovation Center in Munich is designed to help create a more agile organization to accelerate innovation.
Why Open-Plan Offices Don't Work (And Some Alternatives That Do)
80 percent of all offices now have an open floor plan. Traditional companies have moved towards open plans to inject some much-needed creativity and serendipity into their offices, just like the cool start-ups.
Well-designed workspaces have a direct effect on productivity
The workplace is being overhauled in leading organizations by the twin processes of maximizing the benefits of digital technology and improving the human experience.
Listen: Designing Positive Spaces
Through +Positive spaces, Interface is exploring ways in which their modular flooring can help promote thriving, more creative and healthier workspaces through both built environments to the materials used in a space.
What will my office look like in the future of work?
Many are pondering the stability of their jobs and how AI will affect their day-to-day work. But what about the office in which you will work?