The door desk continues to occupy a central place in Amazon’s internal mythology, with the company handing out an internal “Door Desk Award” for cost-saving ideas.
Amazon has come a long way from its early headquarters near a heroin-needle exchange
Design Q&A: New HOK Project Boosts Collaboration
There is a cultural movement underway — people are seeking out more informal, inspiring and flexible workspaces to get their work done.
Trends with Benefits: What’s Cool in Office Design
Oh the times, they are indeed a-changin’, and the cubicle walls in today’s workplace are coming down (with the option of popping right back up, if needed).
Subscription, subscription, subscription: the evolution of commercial property
Location of workplace matters when it comes to workplace performance
Employers can make major performance and productivity improvements by taking a more strategic approach to where they place their people, a new report suggests.
New Research: UK offices lack spaces that enhance productivity & wellbeing
The workplace can change and impact productivity, happiness and engagement, both positively and negatively.
How Office Design Can Boost Your Productivity
Microsoft is doubling down on the suburban office park no one wants
The investment in Redmond also assumes workers will be be using offices in the future, when it’s clear many won’t.
Microsoft announces huge expansion to ‘modernize’ its Redmond HQ
The work, which is scheduled to take five to seven years and will reportedly cost billions, will see 12 buildings knocked down and replaced with larger structures in addition to new ones.
Rethinking the open office
What You Need to Know about Multi-Sensory Office Design
Workplaces need to be consumer-centric and focus on the usability and comfortability of the space. Multi-sensory design engages all five senses and transforms spaces to support our experience at work.
Steelcase CEO Q+A: New Center Enhances Agility
A new Steelcase Learning and Innovation Center in Munich is designed to help create a more agile organization to accelerate innovation.
Why Open-Plan Offices Don't Work (And Some Alternatives That Do)
80 percent of all offices now have an open floor plan. Traditional companies have moved towards open plans to inject some much-needed creativity and serendipity into their offices, just like the cool start-ups.
Well-designed workspaces have a direct effect on productivity
The workplace is being overhauled in leading organizations by the twin processes of maximizing the benefits of digital technology and improving the human experience.
Listen: Designing Positive Spaces
Through +Positive spaces, Interface is exploring ways in which their modular flooring can help promote thriving, more creative and healthier workspaces through both built environments to the materials used in a space.
What will my office look like in the future of work?
Many are pondering the stability of their jobs and how AI will affect their day-to-day work. But what about the office in which you will work?
We Can (Co)Work it Out: How Coworking Continues to Drive Workplace Design in Corporate Real Estate
“The majority of people using coworking spaces want to connect with other people. We’re pack animals, we really feed of off one another in terms of energy and ideas."
The missing LINC between the office and the future of work
The roots of LINC Munich have germinated from an old chestnut. Namely, that an office furniture showroom shouldn’t just offer a trawl through a firm’s products, but embody ideas about the workplace that can be discussed with clients. It’s not a brochure, but a story.
Watch: APPLE PARK November 2017 Drone Update 4K
Get an inside look via drone, at Apple Park as the finishing touches are put on Apple’s jaw dropping headquarters.
Enough of the Millennials, Gen Z is Now the Forefront of Workplace Design Strategies in Commercial Real Estat
The up-and-coming cohort, generation Z, follows Gen Y (affectionately referred by many as Millennials) and is influencing the commercial real estate market worldwide in more ways than one.