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.
A new year presents a sea of new possibilities, especially for our work lives and careers. It’s a time for making resolutions and setting goals. It’s a chance to attack our work with new vigor and passion. To help you be successful in 2016, we’ve put together a list of five great ways to start the new year in the office. These practices will not only get your year off to a great start, but practiced long-term, they can transform the way you work.
Anyone visiting the area surrounding the Lloyds Building in the City of London will notice sharply dressed people wandering around with folders. More often than not, these are people brokering insurance packages for clients. Sometimes for niche specialist service providers. Often for insurance world giants like Willis or Aon.
The idea of culture in the workplace has been around for a long time, but in the past it was usually the domain of human resource managers who handled whatever issues might come up. Today, workplace culture is a front-and-center business issue that can profoundly affect a company's bottom line.
Longer life expectancies and changing demographics mean potential clashes between more generations in the workplace. Demographers typically segment the world population into six living generations: GI (born 1901—1926), mature/silents (born 1927—1945), baby boomers (born 1946—1964), generation X (born 1965—1980), generation Y/millennials (born 1981—2000), and generation Z (born after the middle to late 1990s).
How we spend time at work not working is changing the way we manage work-life balance, and it might not be what you think. Raise your hand if you think a quick scan of Facebook or the news is the most common source of distraction at work. Turns out, social media and web surfing still don’t hold a candle to chitchat or a coffee break as the biggest time sucks in the workplace.
Kay Sargent, director of workplace strategies at Lend Lease, explores why the vertical campus — as opposed to the suburban corporate campus of yesteryear — is the natural outcome of both urban regeneration and new city development.
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Current development practices have taken a marked turn away from putting all the proverbial “eggs in one basket” and are now focused on diversification and “placemaking.” Though the word is a bit overused in today’s master planning lexicon, placemaking describes the positive results that can arise from an authentic Live, Work, Play oriented project.
When visitors walk into the Anders CPAs + Advisors office at 800 Market St., Suite 500, they are greeted with an open layout that encourages employees to work together.
Some 73 percent of surveyed staff in four major Czech cities would appreciate to have the opportunity to see their potential workplace prior to signing an employment contract. “This corresponds with the general perception of the industry that employees are educated about their rights and privileges, and pay attention to the general working environment,” Petr Kareš, head of tenant representation at JLL, said in a news release.
The workplace of the future may not look like the Jetsons’ office, but will change indefinitely based on how you define it.
As technological advances allow us to work anywhere but the office, teleworking is an employee perk that is cropping up with greater frequency. And as workplace footprints contract, virtual connectivity is a growing skill set for managers. So, how are companies using the workplace and real estate opportunities to recruit and retain the best talent? Or, put more simply, are the teleworkers of today the leaders of tomorrow? Based on my 17 years as a designer and workplace strategist teleworking, and the perceived disconnect, teleworking doesn’t promote leadership: Being in the office does.
The workplace can and should be used as a strategic tool to support work and cooperation, to shape the experience of the brand and to produce competitive advantage for the organization. Even when not used as a strategic tool the workplace still affects all these parts and there is always a risk that the workplace has instead a negative impact if we are not aware of the relationship and really use workplace as a strategic tool to affect attractiveness, productivity, efficiency and sustainability. The workplace makes a great difference and it is becoming an important differentiator between successful and less successful organizations. I also strongly believe that the workplace management area is a key for us in the FM industry to bring FM to a higher level, to shift from cost focus to more value focus, and this is something we need to do together within the FM industry and we really should take the driver’s seat. But, let’s start from the beginning.
At global design firm CannonDesign, architects, engineers, futurists, and researchers create everything from college dorms and rec centers, to hospitals, baseball stadiums, libraries, and science laboratories.
Across a vast majority of IA’s environmental graphic design (EGD) in 2015, there was a resounding theme: An office should be personalized – not just with the identity of the company, but with the identity of everyone who works there. We predict a continued emphasis on the representation of corporate culture, personalized by the resident workforce, throughout 2016.
Twenty years ago, the goal was to get the job, then work your way up Mad Men style to the office on the 30th floor. Now people on average — not just millennials — stay at their jobs only 4.4 years. As workers redefine the goal line from the corner office to autonomy and work-life balance, you can bet the landscape of the office will drastically change. We already are seeing it with the rapid emergence of coworking offices everywhere. However, it’s not just coworking, it’s the motivation behind coworking — autonomy, independence, choice and meaning — that is changing the face of the workplace overall.
The modern workplace has changed dramatically over the past several decades, shifting from private offices to collaborative open-plan spaces and adapting to technological innovations and increasingly mobile employees. Clive Wilkinson Architects, the California-based firm behind some of the highest-profile work spaces in recent years, including Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters, has created a concept for the future of working.
At one time or another in our professional lives, we have all found ourselves in a work environment that was so uninspiring that it taught us something. That corner office that was in such a poor state that you felt the uncontrollable urge to rearrange immediately, shifting around filing cabinets and desks to create some sense of community. It can actually be a fabulous and enriching exercise to learn from the bad.
Design Week’s new Studio Sessions documentary series looks at the stories behind designers’ studios – from how to find the right space to tips on making it your own and what happens when you need to move. In the first episode of our new Studio Sessions film series, we talk to Koto about how they set up home in their Southwark space.
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When Boeing, the world's largest plane manufacturer, started designing a new version of its top-selling aircraft, the company wanted to put the plane's designers as close as possible to the manufacturing process. At the airplane maker's sprawling Renton, Washington, campus, office workers often face as much as a 20-minute walk from their desk to the factory floor, making meetings between the people designing the aircraft and those building the aircraft dreadfully inefficient and time-consuming. Facing pressure to churn out more planes to meet demand, the company decided to put its design engineers closer to the action—in a new office building built directly inside the factory.
See how GSA‘s 1800 F Street project in Washington, D.C. is transforming the government workplace in this video and case study, sponsored by AgilQuest.
Whether we like it or not, we all have to work for some, or more usually, most of our adult life. During this time, many of us will work in an office, which is a place that has changed immensely – not only in the last ten years or so, but almost entirely since the start of the twentieth century. The management structure and style of companies, the tools available to the workforce, and the places within the office buildings have been changing and evolving. There has been a shift from hierarchical management structures to a more diverse and organic model. The tools of work have changed from the humble typewritten letter and Bakelite telephone to 24/7 access to emails though laptops and smart phones. And finally the workplace itself has evolved from one with enclosed offices for the senior managers, or a sea of cubicles to workplaces that encourage creativity and collaboration.
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