Open offices are here to stay, regardless of the science that decries them.
Office design is as much about the quality of the interactions it fosters as their quantity
Ever since technology first made it possible for people to work remotely from their colleagues, there has been speculation that the physical office could be dispensed with entirely.
Driving Employee Purpose By Design
How Apple’s first HQ shaped the company into what it is today
A new oral history of the Infinite Loop campus offers a glimpse into the culture of Apple as it worked to build the first iPhone.
How The Legal Industry is Evolving
Interior Design's Workplace Roundtable Tackles the Future of Free-Addressing
The conversation about free-addressing proved to be the meatiest, with some designers seeing it as a much-needed means of democratizing the workplace and more accurately reflecting the way business is conducted today.
How To Design Workplaces For Humans, Not Generations
Companies are making major real estate and policy decisions based on what they think Millennials want, with the sole purpose of recruiting and retaining the best possible talent.
Crown Estate HQ becomes first office in Europe to achieve WELL Platinum Certification
The Crown Estate has announced that it has been awarded WELL Certification at the Platinum Level for its head office at No 1 St James’s Market, London by the International WELL Building Institute.
All those workplace trends lists that you see? We’ve been there before
Twenty and more years ago, office design really was undergoing a complete rethink and much of this was captured in a series of books that attempted to make sense of what was unfolding.
CEO’s Talk Workplace – Interview With Convene’s Ryan Simonetti
Convene CEO Ryan Simonetti created a more human-centric office environment with hospitality at its core.
Can the modern office work for both introverts and extroverts?
In today’s office, desk dividers have come down. Bosses sit among their employees. Meeting rooms have glass walls.
One chance to make a good first impression: Office lobbies see a revamp
The Heat of the Matter Behind Design for Thermal Comfort
Hospitality Meets Office: Building Community Builds Retention
It’s all about customer experience in the office environment today. What’s more, you needn’t break the bank to provide it and keep your occupants happy.
The Smart and the Beautiful: Dichotomies in Workplace Design (Part One)
Maintaining high levels of innovation requires understanding work behaviors and designing workspaces that elevate outcomes—removing barriers to people’s best work.
CEOs Talk Workplace - Interview with Steelcase's Jim Keane
Find out how Steelcase CEO, Jim Keane, has transformed the culture of the global organization by utilizing their space as an engagement tool.
Creating a productive workplace for people is all about context
The quest for a proper understanding of the links between the places we work, the things with which we fill them and our wellbeing and productivity has been ongoing for a very long time.
CRE Opinion: An Obituary For The Desk
Your open office might make you more active and less stressed
A study found that workers in open offices (where there are no partitions between desks, or the partitions are low enough to see over while seated) were over 30% more active while at the office than people working in private offices, on average.
Facebook expands its Campus with additional Frank Gehry-Designed Building
Facebook has revealed images of a new building completed at its Menlo Park headquarters in California.