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.
Open offices have lost their luster, but the principles they embodied — places to interact spontaneously and an abundance of natural light and air — are still key elements of the next generation of offices.
Employees value physical office design features and amenities that offer them a greater deal of comfort and functionality in the workplace.
The researchers argue that although the uptake of open-plan layouts remains controversial, business owners are in fact focusing primarily on the employees’ needs and wants first and foremost when they introduce new office design models and working cultures.
Under construction in Oklahoma, David Dewane’s ‘eudaimonia machine’ divides the workplace into strict zones; cleanse yourself with a shower before entering a deep-work chamber.
The war for talent. Digital transformation. Sustainability. Three macro forces are driving dramatic change in the workplace evidenced by design implications for the coming year.
Steelcase Applied Research + Consulting collaborates with Bosch Software Innovations to imagine a workplace that supports agile work.
The think tank's largest post-occupancy study of new and refurbished workplaces shows that open plans and flexible workstations might be underestimated.
Gen Z workers are competitive, independent and drawn to private workspaces rather than the open office layouts that have recently grown in popularity, and value in-person communication via breakout rooms.
A principal change in the American workplace over the past decade is the realization that the environment in which one works is nearly as important as the job itself.
The importance of bringing people together and concentrating services into a central, publicly accessible location applies beyond just retail.
How homey can an office be? Recent trends in workplace planning are attempting to answer that question by injecting experiential services,
Peggie Rothe, development director at Leesman, questions if change in the office really is for the better.
In the midst of social change, organizations are rethinking traditional business models to drive workplace change through employee engagement.
Could there be anything less surprising in the built environment media world than another article pointing out the flaws of the open office workplace layout?
