According to Tom Hebner of Starbucks, today's workplaces need to embrace the culture of the company while evolving to meet the needs of new generations.
How Evolving Workplace Needs Are Forging New Partnerships Among Furniture Brands
As workplace design increasingly takes cues from homes and hotels, contract companies are adapting by strategically pairing up with residential and lighting brands.
How To Grab Anyone’s Attention In These 7 Common Work Situations
Whether you’re speaking to a roomful of colleagues, your boss, or a group of friends, you can’t wait to draw people in. You either hook them with your first words, or you don’t.
Hong Kong replaces London as most expensive place in world in which to rent a workstation
Hong Kong has replaced London’s West End as the most expensive office market in which to accommodate staff, according to new research from Cushman & Wakefield.
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The Thinking Behind Steecase's New Munich Hub
The three-building campus houses 230 employees from 21 nationalities in product development, sales, finance, communications, order fulfillment, IT, marketing, supply chain, human resources and legal.
What Is Ergonomics and Why Does It Matter?
While it may be an afterthought to many and a word some have heard but few can define, ergonomics is highly relevant to anyone who works.
Apple Is Leading a Revolution in Office Chairs
The Pacific has already racked up what might be the highest honor any design can receive in 2017: Its first customer was Jony Ive, Apple Inc.’s chief design officer.
Forecasting the contract furniture industry
North America continues to control the largest piece of the pie when it comes to the global contract furniture market, with consumption of office, education and healthcare furniture estimated at $18.41 billion in 2016, the most recent figures published by BIFMA/IHS Markit.
A BALANCED MIX: THE STORY OF FOUR LEARNERS
Colleges and universities are beginning to recognize the need for learning environments outside the classroom, but many times these manifest themselves as “in-between” spaces in corridors and student lounges, without specific attention to the kinds of environments that better foster learning.
Steelcase Reports Lower Preliminary Third Quarter Results
Revenue in the Americas was negatively impacted by a significant decline in day-to-day business from large customers. Orders in the Americas declined approximately 6 percent in the third quarter compared to the prior year, and backlog at the end of the quarter in the Americas was approximately 7 percent lower than the prior year.
Shifts in occupier behaviour and attitudes to real estate pave the way for a workplace revolution
The rise of the flexible office is the result of dramatic changes in the way corporate occupiers approach their real estate decisions, and will open up opportunities for landlords able to adapt and respond to these shifts
AGILE WORKING
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin considering how FM can adopt the science of ergonomics to spread the agile working culture.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EAMES CHAIRS — FROM THE LOUNGER TO THE ICONIC MOLDED ARMCHAIR
Eames chairs — from the cozy lounger to the sleek molded armchair —are still widely sought after today, and are continually referenced by contemporary designers.
Teknion Leads the Way Downtown in LA
Downtown Los Angeles is back and attracting architecture and design firms. That means office furniture makers are returning as well.
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HNI Corporation to discontinue the Paoli office furniture brand
Watch: Mariner Holdings Case Study from Dirtt
Watch their journey as they use DIRTT to build, including PON for their networking and Willow glass to express their culture.