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 claim that features of the physical environment can be linked to creative thinking is supported by a handful of neurological studies, internal qualitative research, and Steelcase’s decades-long collaborations with IDEO, the IIT Institute of Design, and the StanfordD.school.
We are constantly told that real estate and technology will interact and fundamentally change the way people work. Big data, smart technology and artificial intelligence are all regularly predicted to have a huge impact on the way offices operate. Co-working and shared workspace are increasingly being touted as the next evolution in the way companies take space. But the path to the office of the future will not run smoothly, as companies are starting to find out.
Designed by Allied Works Architecture, the new headquarters of Fast Retailing–Uniqlo’s parent company–features open-plan office spaces, lounges done up with plants to resemble outdoor gardens, a library filled with books and magazines from around the world, and a room with stadium seating where all 1,200 employees can gather for company functions. While it bears the hallmarks of what we expect creative offices to look like in the West, it’s actually a first for corporate Japan.
The digital and physical worlds are colliding. How will social media platforms influence the way we design spaces?
If your employees are stuck in assigned workspaces and can't control how they work, get ready to disassemble the cubicles.
When you walk into the San Francisco office of the cloud network and security firm Cloudflare, you’re greeted by a receptionist–and a giant wall of 100 lava lamps. It isn’t just a throwback to the 1960s. The lava lamps act as a random number generator, helping to encrypt the requests that go through Cloudflare, which make up 10% of all internet requests.
For centuries people have been getting up, joining a daily commute or retreating to a room, to work. The office has become inseparable from work.Its history illustrates not only how our work has changed but also how work’s physical spaces respond to cultural, technological, and social forces.
Dean Baquet, the executive editor, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, have announced that a central newsroom meeting space will open this year as part of the renovation of our headquarters. They called it the “new Page 1 room.”
Today’s unprecedented talent shortage is compelling businesses and other organizations to get serious about employee attraction and retention. The current war for talent is amplified by a strong economy and a growing number of Baby Boomers nearing retirement age. In Nebraska, for example, more than 65 percent of state government employees are expected to retire in the next five years. Many private-sector businesses are experiencing similar human-resource challenges.
The reality is that today, there are enough flexible office options to supply the needs of every kind of company, whether it wants flexibility or networking.
To borrow a phrase from my youth, I think, “the kids are alright.” This young, maturing generation is made up of passionate, purposeful and highly intelligent men and women who are not just tech literate, but tech natives who are wonderfully equipped to make good use of the most innovative technologies
CBRE recently unveiled plans to energize the 7000 Central Park workplace with major renovations that call for coworking spaces, special events and entertainment options. Could this be a next-gen office prototype?
The roots of the open plan office can be traced back to the 1960s when post-capitalism was beginning to emerge as a political and intellectual movement. The social and political upheaval that followed World War Two and the emphasis on the autonomous, motivated and engaged worker combined to inspire designers and architects to develop a new and more “modern” way of working.
A well-designed lobby welcomes visitors and guides them to the next stage of their journey, she explains. The use of décor, color schemes, furnishings, and ambient music should blend to communicate an immersive expression of the brand
When you're investing in an office redesign, you want more than a fresh coat of paint: you want to improve the space and how your employees, customers and visitors experience it. The desire to improve your experience of a space is one of the driving forces behind this year's hottest interior design trends.
As millennials become increasingly prominent in corporations’ influential leadership roles, the preferences of young workers for urban and creative office space is driving a reconsideration and renovation of offices.
What does the optimum workspace in which to do creative work look like? That’s what Creative Review magazine set out to discover when it surveyed readers of its website as part of a major new report sponsored by British Land, called Working Well: Wellbeing in the Creative Workspace.
With cybersecurity threats on the rise, the private sector is taking a cue from national security protocol to protect corporate secrets, investing in highly protected SCIFs, or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities.
Everyone is asking for the workplace of the future, but a better starting point would be to imagine the work of the future. The office of the future may not be an office at all. Clerical tasks no longer dominate the world of white collar work.
The wellbeing of your employees isn’t a program or HR checklist. It’s a business strategy aimed at increasing employee productivity, enhancing engagement and improving overall health and happiness in the workplace. And like any good business strategy, it’s ongoing, targeted and essential to what defines your organization and its success.
