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.
Common-area amenities are an important thrust of new office design, covering a wide range of spaces, such as conference rooms, tenant lounges, gyms and game rooms.
The biggest client pain point is, unsurprisingly, that furnishing an entire office costs a lot of money, and often the invoices contain hundreds of individual line items, making them difficult to understand.
In pursuit of younger workers, companies have spent the past decade adding perks like craft beer on tap or a pool table that employees can lounge around. Now they want to make sure people outside the office know about all the fun.
The clearest instance of how much of a problem it is? People put on headphones all the time. Headphones have become the new walls.
Data collection in the workplace and its impact on designers and end users continues to trend as the next step in understanding the built environment and informing the design process.
Bob Fox recently caught up with Social Tables CEO, Dan Berger to check in on how the space is continuing to help the company grow while also communicating their “outrageous” vision.
Building an effective open floor plan office requires more than putting employees in one big room with standing desks. Here are best practices and potential pitfalls every company should understand when creating an open workspace.
In an activity based working reboot the mission is to identify what has got stuck and how-to re-start.
In order to figure out how to design these future environments, we must start by exploring whywe design them.
Workplace data is being put to use by corporate service groups (such as Human Resources and IT) to provide a better employee experience and empower the businesses that are their customers.
Many articles on stress in the workplace cite that the impact of change on employee engagement and happiness starts from the top.
Companies have focused on making offices more comfortable and collaborative, but they still need to get over long-standing tech hurdles. That's where the smart office comes in.
With millennials now comprising over 65 percent of the workforce, offices are being designed to adapt to their changing attitudes.
The moment either a visitor or an employee first steps into a company’s workplace, they learn about two things: the company’s business focus and the culture of its people, both of which are reflections of one another. What ties the two together is the workplace itself.
Rather than promoting these wellness programs, companies should instead design the workplace itself to support wellness.
Go ahead and take a seat for this one. Remember that time you read an article about how sitting all day at a desk will kill you and not just in a dead-on-the-inside way? Well, it turns out that standing all day may not be so great either.
Together with the office’s design team, Patrick Jouin & Manku and HENN architects developed an ideal workplace for Steelcase
Daniela Barbon, director of interior design based in HOK’s Toronto office, describes how residential and hospitality influences are impacting workplace design.
