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.
HOK’s WorkPlace practice has issued its latest report, “Designing a Neurodiverse Workplace,” exploring how organizations can create physical work environments that support the full range of employees: neurotypical and neurodivergent.
Reinventing a workplace means balancing the art of what’s possible, with the science of what’s practical.
Your office is more than just bricks and mortar, it can also be a key tool to motivate and inspire your workforce.
A recent Think Tank panel dwelled on aspects of flexibility and choice, two key factors in keeping employees happy.
Many companies with offices around the world may have a universal aesthetic, but localization is key to the most successful workplaces, say designers Dari Shechter and Lily Stanger.
A supposed news item in Crain’s New York Business has claimed that WeWork is ‘squeezing’ people into half the space recommended in the BCO’s Specification Guide; “roughly the size of two standard doors laying side by side”.
Collaborative spaces have come under fire as of late, and more often than not, the fingers are being pointed at open offices. This recent outcry has led some to doubt ifcollaboration itself isn’t to blame.
In honor of our August theme of AI and the Human Experience, HOK’s Kay Sargent shares an informative video exploring how AI is impacting work today and beyond.
Already, technologies once confined to the realm of science fiction are trickling into our everyday lives. But how can we use these impressive advancements—existing and envisioned—to create a better workplace?
No matter where you are in the world, new research tells us the conditions needed for successful collaboration are universal.
The debate on open plan versus enclosed offices rages on, but workplace design is not a such a simple dichotomy.
The fundamental differences between manual counting and occupancy sensors and which is best for your needs.
In recent years, we have seen a growing civil rights movement focused on change in the workplace and in terms of office design, revolving around differences in brain function.
How designing for different work modalities can help people do their best work and ultimately become the best versions of themselves.
From experiential retail flagships to narrative-based workplaces, these big design ideas are changing the face of commercial interiors.
The special sauce behind Google’s breakout hardware products is its one-year-old Design Lab. We’re the first publication to go inside.
