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TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
Manufacturer, NeoCon 2021
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Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ...

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.

Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’
Manufacturer, People
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Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief ...

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.

Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer
Manufacturer
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Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to ...

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.

Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to provide air quality monitoring and viral detection technology
Manufacturer, People
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Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

For over 50 years, Heller offered leading designers the opportunity to work with new technologies to create innovative products. Those were great partnerships and they resulted in great products.

Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

Workplace Design

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THE FUTURE OF OFFICE SPACE AS A SERVICE

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THE FUTURE OF OFFICE SPACE AS A SERVICE

When we talk about the future of office space as a service, it turns out that the future may not be about the space at all. Take, for example, RocketSpace, a tech campus for startups in San Francisco and — having just last week announced plans for another campus — London. Since opening in 2011, it has sent more than 15 unicorns out into the world, including Uber and Spotify. Today, it continues to attract tech entrepreneurs and high growth startups to its campus, but there’s a twist: it’s attracting big corporations, too. In fact, only 50 percent of RocketSpace’s business revolves around providing space and services for startups. The other 50 is all corporate innovation consulting, helping companies like AT&T, RBS, and JetBlue to ward off disruption.

Read the article on workdesign.com >

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The Scrappy, Happy Office: Healthy and Hackable

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The Scrappy, Happy Office: Healthy and Hackable

Today’s workplace can incorporate highly open, collaborative, and strongly themed environments. Tech companies add to this mix an exaggerated sense of play, whimsy, and saturated colors; an overdone trend that has resulted in a public dialogue around the lack of focus, privacy, and individual place.

Read the blog on interiorarchitects.com >

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Proofs of the link between workplace design and productivity? Here are three

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Proofs of the link between workplace design and productivity? Here are three

Three recent studies have joined the already extensive body of work linking workplace design and productivity. The most extensive is the research carried out by communications consultancy Lansons which looks at every aspect of the British workplace to uncover the experiences and most commonly held perceptions of around 4,500 workers nationwide. The study is broken down into a number of sections which examine topics such as workplace design, wellbeing, job satisfaction, personal development and leadership. The second is a study from the Property Directors Forum published last year which explores the experiences of occupiers and finds a shift in focus away from cost reduction and towards investing to foster employee productivity. The final showcases the results of a post occupancy survey conducted by National Grid following the refurbishment of the firm’s Warwick headquarters by engineering and project management consultancy AECOM.

Read the article on freshworkspace.com >

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Is Workplace Design Briefing Becoming Too Complex For Property Specialists Alone?

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Is Workplace Design Briefing Becoming Too Complex For Property Specialists Alone?

Increasingly, the physical workplace itself is becoming a feature in the sophisticated, specialised machinery that runs any nimble internet age business. As such, these spaces must respond to the emerging needs of workplace strategy. This is the zone in which building design, modern technology and new ways of working come together to deliver the future of work.

Read the article on theurbandeveloper.com >

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How Agile Working Has Impacted Our Workspace

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How Agile Working Has Impacted Our Workspace

We live in a world where technology has changed how we work as well as the physical workspace. Technology has been a huge driver of agile working which isn’t simply working remotely or part-time but involves work which focuses on performance and outcomes. “In an agile environment, ‘work’ becomes an activity rather than a place,” explains Martyn Freeman, managing director of Mitie’s facilities management business. “Agile working supports a much more collaborative way of doing business and with the right technology, it gives people the ability to work wherever they happen to be and whenever it suits them to do so.”

Read the article on forbes.com >

Is Third Space Becoming the Primary Space?

Is Third Space Becoming the Primary Space?

The office world is abuzz with the term “third space”; that gray area outside of your home and the traditional office space. Have you enjoyed a coffee while catching up on emails at Starbucks? Have you kicked off your shoes and taken in some sunlight on an outdoor patio while crunching on a work deadline? Then you’ve taken advantage of a third space. With the explosion of mobile technology, Wi-Fi and the Cloud we really are able to work anywhere. With this freedom also comes choice; workers are choosing the environments that best suit their work styles.

Read the blog post on blog.ki.com >

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Designing for the Workplace and the Workforce

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Designing for the Workplace and the Workforce

Throughout 2015, Metropolis’s publisher and editor in chief, Susan S. Szenasy, led the Metropolis Think Tank series of conversations on the seismic cultural shifts reshaping our society and the importance of injecting a new humanism into design and architecture in order to better deal with emerging challenges. As part of these ongoing discussions, Szenasy engages key industry leaders and gives a voice to different knowledge groups that participate in these processes—from architecture firms and clients to researchers and consultants. 

Read the article on metropolismag.com >

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Graduates want meaningful work and a fully digitised workplace

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Graduates want meaningful work and a fully digitised workplace

Millennials entering the workforce want employment that offers meaningful work, ongoing learning opportunities and a fun workplace culture. This is according to a new study by Accenture on the workforce of the future which reveals that new graduates are increasingly digital, embracing new technologies, both to find work and on the job. The fourth annual Accenture Strategy 2016 U.S. College Graduate Employment Study found that the majority (70 percent) would rather work at a company that provides an employee experience built on a positive social atmosphere and receive a lower salary – up 10 percent on last year’s graduating class. Almost all (92 percent) of 2016 graduates said it is important to be employed at a company that demonstrates social responsibility. They are also three times as likely to prefer to work for a small or medium-sized company (44 percent), versus a large company (14 percent), indicating their preference for a smaller team environment.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net > 

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Hotel Lobbies – the preferred workplace

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Hotel Lobbies – the preferred workplace

There is little new about working in hotels, says Alex Gifford, Brand & Communications Manager from Allermuir. For a long time they have had meeting rooms and conference facilities, while lobbies have always been used for meeting clients or colleagues.

Read the article on hotel-magazine.co.uk >

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Alternate workplaces strategies explored as demand for US offices grows

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Alternate workplaces strategies explored as demand for US offices grows

The US national office market recovery slowed slightly in the first quarter of 2016 amid some volatility within the financial markets. However, as the financial markets stabilised later in the quarter, office based job growth accelerated, likely signalling stronger tenant demand in the months ahead, according to a new report from CBRE. Tech and healthcare companies continue to drive growth, resulting in a scarcity of creative space in many cities. Meanwhile, energy-dominated markets slowed further due to sustained low oil prices. Many companies continued to seek space in vibrant downtown and suburban areas near public transport links in order to attract talent. A tightening supply within the Class A market has resulted in tenants exploring well-located Class B properties and creative space, with tenants across geographies and industries exploring alternate workplaces strategies to maximise efficiencies and collaboration.

Read the article on workplaceinsights.net >

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Making sense of the relentless babble about flexible working

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Making sense of the relentless babble about flexible working

Not a day goes by when some organisation or other isn’t found extolling the virtues of flexible working or urging everybody to adopt the practice. While it’s easy to be cynical about the results of surveys from technology companies which are a staple part of this media onslaught, they are actually on to something. And that is why governments, employers and their associations and employees are all attracted to the idea of flexible working as a way of achieving whatever it is they want. The result is the stew of motivations, ideas and terminology that can lead commentators to make grand and daft pronouncements about flexible working; pronouncing it dead, most famously in the case of Yahoo but more subtly in the case of the grand new Xanadus being created in Silicon Valley by the area’s Charles Foster Kanes, or as the harbinger of death for the office based on the notion that somehow we’ll all be working in exactly the same way at some point in the future.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net >

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Can the design of an office impact productivity? This Denver real estate firm will find out.

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Can the design of an office impact productivity? This Denver real estate firm will find out.

No one has assigned desks in CBRE's new downtown office — not even senior managing director Pete Schippits, who oversees the commercial real estate firm's entire Colorado operation and about 500 employees. You won't find a single corner office on the top floor of 17th Street Plaza anymore, those spaces now dedicated to collaborative work areas shared by everyone, no matter their title or tenure.

Read the article on denverpost.com >

AN OFFICE THAT MOVES PEOPLE

AN OFFICE THAT MOVES PEOPLE

Inspired to re-envision your workplace? At JLL, we are in the midst of our own major headquarters refresh in Chicago’s landmark Aon Center. Last month, we completed the first phase of this ambitious project, working with our partners at Gensler to unveil two newly reimagined floors that put into action all of the workplace strategy advice we provide to our clients.

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Law firms tentatively embrace open office floor plans

Law firms tentatively embrace open office floor plans

McCarthy Tétrault became the first major law firm in Canada to adopt what has become a growing – albeit cautious – trend among law firms both in the U.S. and around the world: utilizing office space that creates more open, communal work areas with more flexible, tech-connected workstations while doing away with secluded, individual offices of dark oak and smoked glass that typified the traditional law firm years ago.

Read the blog on blogs.thomsonreuters.com >

Modern Office Design in Amsterdam Features Laid-Back Work Spaces

Modern Office Design in Amsterdam Features Laid-Back Work Spaces

Studio D/Dock was challenged by OVG Real Estate to design their new office space on the top floor of the famous green Edge Building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The result is a creative working venue, where traditional desks are replaced by activity-related areas and relaxation corners. An impressive array of finishes and textures is highlighted in the interior design, for a relaxing, laid-back atmosphere.

Read the article on freshome.com >

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The 50 most awesome things in Chicago tech offices

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The 50 most awesome things in Chicago tech offices

Blue Sky has visited some of the city’s most innovative office spaces. We’ve seen spaces for startups and corporations, both high-budget and those furnished by Ikea. We’ve seen treadmill desks, nap rooms, snack closets, graffiti walls and one of the country’s only Killer Queen machines. And we can’t forget the office pets, from well-behaved pooches to a turtle named Speedy. But a few things stand out.

Read the article on chicagotribune.com >

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Workplaces of the Future Will Feel More Like 'The Matrix' Than 'Office Space'

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Workplaces of the Future Will Feel More Like 'The Matrix' Than 'Office Space'

The cliché workplace environment of the 20th century makes me think about dull neon lights, desk cubicles, stale air and large IBM computer monitors. I cannot imagine how this would stimulate productivity, innovation and a sense of community for today’s office workers or generation.

Read the article on entrepreneur.com >

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