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 office cubicle will never be the same. With Millennials set to make up half of the global workforce by 2020, they are driving interest in less conventional workplaces that offer flexible furniture and more space for collaboration — with nary a cubicle in sight.
With the rise of the open office has come the rise of what I’ll call the open office symphony: the consistent click-clack of a colleague who types a little bit too aggressively, the boisterous yammer of loud talkers, and intermittent laughs about something on Slack or Twitter or YouTube.
My trade is to ask questions about the workplace then make sense of the answers. That has been a particular challenge with the question, ‘what are offices today?’ What seems clear is that the various actors in the workplace ecosystem look at offices through very different eyes.
Contrary to popular belief, the majority of workers under the age of 35 actually prefer office life to working remotely, a new report has found.
Can a well-designed interior help to limit our work time and increase our resting time? Of course. Can we design spaces that almost force us to change our behavior? Probably not. Your job title is designer, not behavior psychologist. The individual in all of us will fight that way of thinking every time.
Many offices have jumped into the open office trend, but studies are showing the distractions of such collaborative spaces are lowering employee productivity. VR may help us solve this dilemma. A virtual reality desktop that takes an employee into a created visual space would not only eliminate the need for multiple computer screens, it would block out pesky distractions.
Whether its robots, artificial intelligence or automation, technology is changing how humans work. And, while some jobs we humans hold today may be doomed to disappear in the not-too-distant future, history has taught us this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, it may, in the long run, even be a good thing.
We had a chance to speak with Raquel Sachser, Senior Designer at M Moser Associates‘ New York City offices, who has recently worked on the offices of Pivotal Labs, Raymond James, and Honeywell.
Raquel tells us about what branding in the contemporary office landscape looks like and how the firm works to help clients create an environment which matches the unique identity of each organization.
The workplace has gone through many shifts over the years, with style, layout, design, and furniture having a lot to do with that.
In exchange for an enhanced work environment, employees can sometimes expect to spend longer hours in the office and tied to a mobile device, albeit with a flexible schedule. Largely employees once experienced an "in and out" office-based occupation, with formal dress in roughly a 9 to 5 environment. Now there is an expectation of a relaxed office culture featuring casual dress, good food, a social conscious, and fun.
Big data, the cloud and advanced computing are some of the forces pulling information technology professionals out of the basement and into every aspect of business today. Listen as Terry Lenhardt, vice president and chief information officer for Steelcase, reveals how the evolution of IT is impacting employees, positioning companies for growth and changing the workplace.
According to “Wellbeing: A Bottom Line Issue” in Steelcase 360, IBM’s 2012 global CEO study revealed the need for companies to become “more collaborative, communicative, creative, flexible, and ultimately more innovative.”
Everyone wants the perfect office space, but no one wants to pay an exorbitant price tag to get it. But for businesses owners, finding the furniture of their dreams can be as simple as some creative product sourcing and strategically deciding where to splurge.
With productivity an on-going concern for most companies, employee disengagement—resulting in more sick days, more turnover, and less profitability—significantly affects the bottom line. But according to a recent Gallup poll, only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged in their job. In a move to increase engagement, many companies are exploring the potential of workplace design to create a sensory-rich experience based on new technologies that enable employees to customize their experience of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste in line with personal preferences.
Office design is changing, and in doing so, reflects a desire for more social work environments, a movement toward flexible work hours and work spaces and a blending of home and office design.
The state’s employers are pushing landlords to remodel office spaces with cool perks to attract younger workers.
In the world of intelligent spaces, engaging experiences enable employees to maximize effectiveness, seamlessly and securely anywhere, anytime. Here's what you need to build that world.
The nature of my work has enabled me to visit many offices of creative companies around the world. I’ve never seen one I’d want to work in more than the Desigual fashion brand’s 4-year old beachfront headquarters on the Mediterranean in Barcelona’s Barceloneta neighborhood.
Engaging employees in the design process should begin long before drawing any blueprints. Businesses interested in changing their workspaces should start with employee surveys, which ask about desired elements of the space, colors, furniture and more. This helps the business gain an understanding of what their current space lacks and what they can aim for.
Researchers, working in labs tucked into the darkest recesses of psychology department basements, and in spaces as publicly accessible as Grand Central Station, have learned that the responses of members of the sub-species Non-Designer to their habitat can differ from those of humans in the other sub-species, Designer. The most frequently identified reason for these differences is that design training influences how humans experience the world around themselves.
