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.
The workplace continues to evolve rapidly and flexibility drives many organizations when it comes to decisions about their workplace. Last week at the Rocket Fuel office in Chicago, we probed industry leaders on the topic, including Elissa Beckman, head of talent and HR at SpotHero, Charles Hardy, chief workplace officer for GSA, Steve Teubner, principal at FOX Architects, and Randy Tritz, partner at Shen Milsom & Wilke.
BCO CONFERENCE PREVIEW: We need to throw out the rule book on conventional office design to put the well-being of occupants first, says Make founder Ken Shuttleworth
The final plenary session at the 2016 BCO conference in Amsterdam will argue that ‘anarchy’ is the only way forward when it comes to creating the workplace of the future. By anarchy, we mean a disavowal of old modes of thinking, adopting totally new ideas that challenge convention, turning accepted norms upside down and throwing out the rule book.
An undulating, space-age lobby ceiling sculpted by Isamu Noguchi in the 1940s has been uncovered at a U-Haul store in St. Louis, where it has been hidden by partitions and a drop ceiling for over two decades.
Coworking spaces are much more than a space for you to work. After all, if all you want is space, you can work from home, go to your local coffee shop or park at the nearest public library. Coworking spaces are different. They aren’t just alternatives to high-priced office spaces. Many foster a community of support and other amenities such as coffee, a kitchen and conference space — not to mention the networking and serendipitous collisions that happen in the hallways.
Flexible workspace operators take people, place, and technology and combine it to create a strong social purpose.
Yes. Yes, we certainly can. Seriously. We cannot find any more old warehouse buildings to renovate, and selling space in the central business district is difficult as corporate buildings are becoming less and less attractive. We need a new building that is attractive to companies that cut their teeth in co-working incubators before seeking their own digs.
Working in flexible spaces and varied environments is on the rise in the UK, but traditional offices may remain the choice of firms where teamwork is less important.
As more employees take to cycling into the office, the traditional bike shed is being replaced by an array of creative solutions from cycle-in offices in London to automated underground bike storage lockers in city centers.
Is your team ready to follow other Delaware companies in the agile-office concept?
Delaware’s strategically focused companies are all about disruption, turning the old office model on its head. Technology, connectivity, and perceptions about how work gets done are changing so rapidly that the focus of today’s discussions about office space design has changed from a demand for cheap space to a demand for “smart” space.
Take an aerial tour of Apple Campus 2 as it constantly evolves during its construction. Recorded using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional.
In today’s highly competitive business climate, companies of all scales, sizes and maturity levels need to maximize the ROI they are pulling from their workplaces. Clearly, workplace ROI means different things to different organizations. For fast growth companies with highly mobile staff, they may need a workplace that infuses adaptable, technology-rich environments so people can do their work whenever and however they need. For organizations that bring clients into their offices frequently, creating a space that communicates brand and leaves an impression is key.
In the workplace, some furniture is designed to make your office functional. A desk, ergonomic chair and conference room are typical components of a typical office. Just bring your computer and you’re in business, right?
The last time Lucy Kellaway visited Unilever’s London HQ it was a rabbit warren of corridors, closed offices and wood panelling. Now it’s a vast glass and steel temple to the modern office — but is it any better?
In between its 10,000 daily posts cheerleading for Donald Trump, Business Insider still occasionally finds time to publish some of the journalism that made it famous. That is, slideshows of fancy tech offices.
This week it was the turn of LinkedIn’s new San Francisco skyscraper at 2nd and Howard. BI’s Matt Rosoff took his camera on a tour of the building, which he described as “unlike anything else we've seen.”
I agree. Judging from BI’s slideshow, LinkedIn’s building is markedly different from other tech company headquarters. In so far as it’s extraordinarily, aggressively dull...
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We have seen a lot of over-the-top tech company offices, both in San Francisco and in Silicon Valley to the south. But LinkedIn's new building has a ton of stuff we'd never seen before.
Between 2005 and 2015 the number of people working over the age of 50 in the UK increased by 2.5 million, while those working over the age of 65 more than doubled. By 2022, there will be 12.5 million job vacancies that need to be replaced due to people leaving the workforce in addition to the two million new vacancies that will be created. However, there are estimated to be just seven million younger people to fill them. Recruiting and retaining older workers will be critical to closing this gap. Now in a major new initiative, the Centre for Ageing Better has gone into partnership with Business in the Community to identify and test what works to recruit, retrain and retain older workers. Through this partnership, it wants to hear from employers across the country who see the benefits of older workers and who are implementing changes to create age friendly workplaces.
Sketching is a process of communication and expression, reflecting an individual’s hand and, at times, one’s personality: It’s an exaggerated signature.
Facing productivity issues in your business? You might want to take a look at your office space. The research shows that an attractive working environment is crucial to getting the most out of your employees. A recent academic study indicated that decorating an office with plants can influence workers’ quality of life and productivity levels by up to 15%.
There are many benefits produced as a byproduct of incorporating daylighting into an office building design. Access to daylight throughout the day improves employee well-being and overall health, even after leaving the office. Besides creating a pleasant working environment for employees, solar protection also plays a key part in supporting sustainable energy efficiency concepts.
There are countless studies detailing how working in an open office affects your employees’ productivity, thanks to elevated noise levels and the constant stream of interruptions. In a bid to improve productivity and focus, more and more office workers put their headphones on and shut out the noise – and their colleagues – hindering the collaborative environment the open office was designed to foster.
