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.
Though in the future, the COVID-19 pandemic may be seen as a finite period in time, there's no doubt it has been culturally defining, meaning office spaces will have no choice but to engage with these concerns on a meaningful, long-term basis.
Weston Williamson + Partners intends to combine changes in working practices with physical alterations to its workspace to allow employees that want to return to the office the opportunity to do so.
Offices aren’t going anywhere, but the virus outbreak represents a chance to streamline how they look, feel, and function.
OpenText didn’t set out to shift to remote work. But it’s gone so well that 2,000 of its 15,000 employees will work from home on a permanent basis.
For workers used to interacting on open plan floors, sanitizing office life and boosting remote working could limit their opportunity to swap ideas and weaken company culture. It also makes integrating new staff more difficult.
One of the key culprits in causing unhappiness in open-plan spaces is noise – and, according to an OnOffice round table of office design experts hosted by furniture brand Bisley, it isn't just volume that is the issue in most spaces.
Immediate changes to office design include allowing for 6 feet between workers and halving conference room capacity, while other precautions include the use of professional cleaning and sanitation through the workday.
As businesses contemplate the return of workers to their desks, many are considering large and small changes to the modern workplace culture and trappings.
Taking down walls made modern offices cheaper, infuriating, and perfect vectors for viral spread. But as a recession looms, they still may not be going anywhere.
Many people expressed surprise about how easy it is to keep productivity high when working from home if the right technology is in place and it is not something people are forced to do every day.
The overnight shift to working from home is upending the model of how much real estate law firms really need.
As working from home gains acceptance and more roles are fulfilled in remote settings, the fundamental principles of workplace design will still apply — just in a residential context.
The advisor’s handy 10-page guide covers new norms for staff wellbeing and safety as well as tips for sticking to the guidelines for social distancing.
The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating workers’ worries about returning to jobs in these often debated floor plans.
Workplace data is bringing customized insights into how companies can best keep their employees safe as offices reopen their doors.
Designers, clients, and researchers at a Think Tank hosted by Ennead Architects explained how information gathered from many different sources can improve the workplace experience.
Drawing on observations and experiences gleaned from decades of designing office environments, Martin Goldstein predicts some substantive shifts in what people can expect from the return to the workplace.
