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.
A new, modernized network of motels – focused on a fun experience, efficiency in amenities, sleek design and of course, cleanliness and safety – could become the working traveler’s touch down for wi-fi hotspots or fiber cable connections to sustain their career along their journey.
Twitter’s plans for work from home indefinitely have prompted a wave of copycats. But its transformation has been two years in the making — and the rest of America can learn some lessons.
As many companies grapple with how — or if — they should bring their employees back to the office, planning for positive coronavirus cases is emerging as a crucial part of the strategy.
Office users have been shedding office space and moving to denser workplace models for years—and there office absorption rates were experiencing a structural decline.
Two of the best-studied aspects of living indoors are the need for connection to the outside in the form of sunlight and nature views.
More than six months into the coronavirus pandemic, only about a quarter of office workers have returned to their places of work, a new study has found.
With offices closed during the coronavirus pandemic, employees have adapted to working from home. Now many of them want to be able to work from anywhere in the world.
The research found that throughout the pandemic, organizations have been able to identify which types of work are better suited for physical vs virtual workplaces.
Now that WFH actually works (sometimes), not only do CEOs have control and flexibility over work, but everyone else too.
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen tens of millions of Americans engage in a gigantic experiment in working from home — one that looks to be more permanent than anyone might have imagined.
Is your building making people sick? The onset of the coronavirus has made the need for healthy buildings and better ventilation a top priority.
“Our own analysis reveals that about 70% of desks in the United States may not be in compliance with that standard. And they’re often sitting on very expensive real estate. So there’s an opportunity to help retrofit and reconfigure these spaces so they don’t sit idle.”
The brokerage firm is looking to make life easier and more enjoyable for the growing number of employees working remotely, as well as the few who have to return to their office.
Demand for office space has decreased 20% more during the pandemic than it did during the Great Financial Crisis.
The recovery of the U.S. office market from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and recession is going to be a slow process, likely stretching beyond 2024, Cushman & Wakefield predicts in a new report on the future of office space worldwide.
The recovery might be slow, but the pandemic doesn't necessarily mean the end of established patterns of office space use.
"Even though the impact of work-from-home trends will slow the office market recovery, the overall growth in office-using job sectors along with many other factors — including agglomeration, culture/branding, and productivity — indicate that the office will continue to play an important role in the economy going forward,” Cushman & Wakefield Global Head of Forecasting Rebecca Rockey said in a statement.
The report predicts that the U.S. office sector will lose about 145M SF of office occupancy in 2020 and 2021 as the result of the economy losing a net 1.7 million office jobs. As of Q2 2020, the office sector has already lost 23.1M SF of occupied space nationwide, with negative absorption continuing for at least another 18 months.
A study from workplace strategy consulting firm Vocon found that work-from-home fatigue is increasing and productivity is decreasing.
