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.
All this is prompting employers to think about how their workspaces can be used differently and more effectively. Offices could be a space for convening and group thinking, while homes become the site of undisturbed, productive work.
Herman Miller announced that they are releasing a series of special edition chairs for the gaming community, starting with the iconic Aeron Chair.
Work from home trends resulting from COVID-19 will reshape the US housing market, likely becoming the norm well after shelter orders are lifted because many workers don’t have to live close to workplaces.
The COVID-19 pandemic, the safety of public transit, and the reopening schools are the factors weighing most heavily in companies' plans to bring workers back to the office.
Design studio Dutch Invertuals has created a collection of compact offices made from corrugated aluminium and wood for Dutch holiday park operator Droomparken.
Companies don’t want to waste money on office space when everyone’s working from home—but they do want to make space available when workers need to come in. Enter the hub-and-spoke model.
Companies have had to regroup and reinforce not only the ability of their employees to work in their home environments but come together remotely, pushing the available technologies to create a new workplace, almost out of thin air.
Nine out of ten employees who have worked at home during lockdown would like to continue doing so in some capacity, research suggests.
Steelcase announced Tuesday a series of permanent changes to its Americas segment including a cut of 300 salaried employees, approximately 8% of the company's total workforce.
One thing is for sure: The home office has now been firmly established as a place of work that is easily equal to any other place of business.
WorkSuites recently launched a “Zoom Room”, an additional free private space for clients’ kids to study, take online classes or just play on iPads while parents work.
In order to make workers feel safe returning to the office, building owners and tenants may have to sacrifice some environmental sustainability.
The move is one of the stronger instances yet of a company moving away from large office locations in favor of distributed or remote work, as well as a sign of a slowed San Francisco office market.
When leveraging purposeful design through a balanced approach of informed, empathetic, and exciting, designers can reach a higher, more impactful level of design.
More than two-thirds (68%) of large company CEOs plan to downsize their office space, according to a survey released Tuesday by KPMG.
Some might say that the hierarchical building class system generally has served the market well, until today.
Business executives and their HR leads have important roles to play in looking after employees’ emotional wellbeing, whether their teams come back into physical offices or continue to work from home.
