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.
The coronavirus pandemic could permanently change how many bankers make the daily trudge into tightly packed city centre offices, Barclays CEO Jes Staley said on Wednesday.
About 70% of US offices are open-plan workspaces, designed to encourage colleagues to bump into each other and share ideas—and, unwittingly, droplets of spit, mucus, and phlegm that can carry pestilential pathogens. Health experts are beginning to suggest that might need to change.
In addition to the tragic toll on human life, the onset of COVID-19 has forced many of us to quickly adapt to remote working.
Megan Hart, NCIDQ explores how the return to the workplace will push us to consider infection control strategies common in healthcare interior design and architecture.
Contract tracing apps for co-workers, elevator ‘safe zones,' infrared body temperature scanners — businesses are beginning to re-imagine office spaces after the coronavirus.
Daylight, natural ventilation, and unfinished wood surfaces can all reduce the abundance of harmful pathogens.
After months of working from home, millions will someday return to their offices with radically different expectations and worries than they had before the crisis.
While we live in a connected global community made up of smart cities and spaces powered by data and digital technology, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed gaps in what we know.
A stimulating conversation with futurist, Adam Zuckerman, moderated by Work Design publisher, Bob Fox.
Some of the major office adjustments to consider include installing “no-touch” technology, revising office designs and layouts, setting social distancing parameters, augmenting cleaning protocols, new sick-time, and remote work policies, and most importantly, according to public health experts, ensuring indoor air quality.
The pandemic already pushed millions to work from home. Many of them will likely go back to a very different office.
The concept of community is helpful to keep in mind as we begin to imagine what it will be like to re-occupy the workplace following this pandemic.
When we return to our physical workplaces, we need to rethink how we introduce interfaces that aren’t just frictionless, but also touchless.
Open-plan office space, so recently the wave of the future, could soon be a distant memory as office space is marked by dividers and punctuated by private rooms.
As unprecedented disruption and change ripple across the business landscape due to the global COVID- 19 pandemic, what are the impacts on the future state of the workplace?
Biophilic design has already achieved mainstream understanding and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see salutogenic design as the next idea to cross over.
