If dogs are mankind's best friend, it's a little sad that office jobs typically require leaving them home all day long.
Dogs in the office are great, but both tech and design could get in the way
Why is the City of Toronto downsizing its office space? Millennials have something to do with it
How many square feet people are willing to live in has been shrinking for years, and now their offices are shrinking too.
The Value of Workplace Flexibility
As the trend of corporate workplace design has shifted toward an open concept, workplaces have struggled to find the appropriate level of ancillary space to balance so much public work space.
7 Spaces for the New Ways We Work
Success Is On The Move: The Impact Of Personalized Workplace Design
The future of workplace design is engaging with individuals and asking them what they want from their space.
How CRE Experts Are Approaching Building Amenities
WDM connected with four CRE experts who are looking beyond the here and now of tenant and landlord views of how well-designed amenities are a critical component of workplace design.
How to Find the Perfect Office, According to a Founder Who's Moved His Startup 5 Times
SquareFoot co-founder Jonathan Wasserstrum has moved a host of high-flying businesses--including his own--into new digs.
Improve Focus without an Office Redesign
In what has been dubbed “the privacy backlash” many workers are finding themselves less productive in open-office floorplans. Curated pieces solve open plan design challenges.
The Office Can Offer Authenticity in a Virtual World
A recent event held at Haworth's San Francisco showroom gathered workplace specialists to discuss trends in office design, including its ability to create a "counterpoint to our digital spaces."
HOK’s WorkPlace Group Releases “Designing a Neurodiverse Workplace” Report
HOK’s WorkPlace practice has issued its latest report, “Designing a Neurodiverse Workplace,” exploring how organizations can create physical work environments that support the full range of employees: neurotypical and neurodivergent.
Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones—and Taking Their Jobs With Them
As Trump Looted FEMA and the Military for His Border Policies, DHS Bought High-End Chairs With Taxpayer Funds
Herman Miller, the luxury furniture maker whose Aeron chair is in the Museum of Modern Art, is the most frequent recipient of DHS money for office furniture.
How To Get More Bang For Your Workspace Renovation Buck
Reinventing a workplace means balancing the art of what’s possible, with the science of what’s practical.
Remote working will reshape communities in entirely new ways
The Impact Of Office Design On Business Performance
Your office is more than just bricks and mortar, it can also be a key tool to motivate and inspire your workforce.
Employees Are Looking for Choice; Their Workplace Should Give It to Them
A recent Think Tank panel dwelled on aspects of flexibility and choice, two key factors in keeping employees happy.
Your boss is going to start using AI to monitor you—and labor laws aren’t ready
Our labor laws are weak enough as they are—and technology is constantly helping companies find ways around the ones that do exist to more closely monitor and analyze their workers.
Diverse workplace is key to attracting freelancers
The gig economy in the US is growing exponentially, and with projections of freelancers making up almost half of the US workforce by 2027, employers are keen on engaging this talent pool.
Why local design is important for global firms, from Google to boutique coworking spaces
Many companies with offices around the world may have a universal aesthetic, but localization is key to the most successful workplaces, say designers Dari Shechter and Lily Stanger.
Back to workplace basics, the joy and pain of work, squeezing people in and some other stuff
A supposed news item in Crain’s New York Business has claimed that WeWork is ‘squeezing’ people into half the space recommended in the BCO’s Specification Guide; “roughly the size of two standard doors laying side by side”.