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.
For companies looking to hire knowledge workers — of any age, who use and value the kinds of technological and workplace innovations that foster innovation and productivity — there's a market demand for flexible and amenity-driven workplaces.
The Workplace Futures Report predicts that 'Open Work' spaces of 2025 will be multidimensional, multigenerational and interactive, where three archetypes of Sentient, Hospitality and Flat Age workspaces are positively amalgamated.
Despite optimistic assertions about the benefits of open office space, outcomes are mixed. In some cases, open-plan office designs are reported to increase collaboration, employee satisfaction, and communication, but in others these new spaces are criticized for creating distractions, reducing privacy and autonomy, and undermining employee motivation and satisfaction.
Millennials have brought a different perspective to the workplace – gone are the days when all employees looked for was a decent wage. So what does a good workplace look like in 2018?
Why are people migrating away from their desks? What kinds of spaces are they looking for? Is it as simple as adding some sofas and a barista bar to give people the kind of workplace they want?
Searches for private offices have become more popular than coworking space among SMEs over the past year, according to new data from commercial property marketplace Hubble.
In light of his new book release on 1 March, Neil Usher uncovers the essential framework for what makes a fantastic workplace.
“Dim lights are producing dimwits,” remarks one researcher studying the connection between light and mental acuity.
It wasn’t too long ago CEOs spent days with their executive team to devise a five-year plan worthy of Wall Street. Today, five years is an eternity.
Building and office design is changing from the ground up, from how we manage our HVAC systems to how our employees collaborate and work, Tangram Interiors’ Amanda Pierce tells GlobeSt.com.
Martínez, a consumer-goods practice-area leader at Gensler, chats with Metropolis editor-in-chief, Avinash Rajagopal, about not being afraid to experiment in office design.
Over half of UK workers (53 percent) say that the standard of technology is a key consideration for accepting a new job role and more than 1 in 3 (37 percent) would decline a job based on poor hardware alone, claims a new survey.
Faced with consumers who value authenticity, quality, and storytelling, designers have to think about the full user journey, which starts before a customer enters and continues after they leave.
So how do we change hierarchy if we wanted to? The psychological perspective offers a fairly grim outlook to our ability to shift from embedded hierarchies.
As for the private office, it’s telling that Mark Zuckerberg famously works in a large open plan office at the company’s new headquarters.
A growing number of professionals are also keen on developing side projects away from work that they believe are more closely aligned with their personality and interests, according to the study of 2,000 people.
