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October 30, 2022
The Working Space
TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
October 12, 2021
Manufacturer, NeoCon 2021
Source: CFN News Desk
Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ...

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.

Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’
September 9, 2021
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief ...

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.

Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer
August 16, 2021
Manufacturer
Source: CFN News Desk
Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to ...

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.

Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to provide air quality monitoring and viral detection technology
August 15, 2021
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

For over 50 years, Heller offered leading designers the opportunity to work with new technologies to create innovative products. Those were great partnerships and they resulted in great products.

Alan Jay Heller dies at 81
Source: Sandow
October 30, 2020
Workplace Design

Research that Drives Future Innovation

Source: Sandow
October 30, 2020
Workplace Design
Research that Drives Future Innovation

In looking at disruption in other industries, ThinkLab predicts the biggest future innovations in the design industry will come from process innovation, not product innovation with Kelly Weertz, Elizabeth Von Lehe, Matthew Lieb, and AJ Paron. This episode is sponsored by: Carnegie Fabrics.

Source: Workplace Insight
October 30, 2020
Workplace, Working Life, Work From Home, Home Office

Organizations shift attitudes on meeting costs of home office setup

Source: Workplace Insight
October 30, 2020
Workplace, Working Life, Work From Home, Home Office
Organizations shift attitudes on meeting costs of home office setup

Eighty-two percent of US based employers now believe the organization should absorb the cost of a home office setup for employees that work from home full-time.

Source: propmodo
October 30, 2020
Workplace, Working Life, Flex Space, Real Estate, Remote Working

The First Signs of Offices Reopening Point to an Agile Workplace Future

Source: propmodo
October 30, 2020
Workplace, Working Life, Flex Space, Real Estate, Remote Working
The First Signs of Offices Reopening Point to an Agile Workplace Future

Since April, nearly every type of workspace has struggled to rebound with utilization.

Source: MLive
October 28, 2020
Manufacturer

Steelcase hit by cyber attack

Source: MLive
October 28, 2020
Manufacturer
Steelcase hit by cyber attack

Steelcase said the attack targeted its information technology systems, and that it “promptly implemented a series of containment measures to address this situation including temporarily shutting down the affected systems and related operations.”

Source: CFN News Desk
October 28, 2020
Events, NeoCon 2021

NeoCon 2021 Moved to October 4-6, 2021

Source: CFN News Desk
October 28, 2020
Events, NeoCon 2021
NeoCon 2021 Moved to October 4-6, 2021

We are shifting our June dates to October for 2021 as part of our efforts to produce a safe and successful onsite event reconnecting the NeoCon Community.

Source: CFN News Desk
October 26, 2020
Manufacturer

Knoll Reports Sales fell 13.2% and Profits fell 48% in latest quarter

Source: CFN News Desk
October 26, 2020
Manufacturer
Knoll Reports Sales fell 13.2% and Profits fell 48% in latest quarter

Knoll, Inc. sales of $309.4 million declined 13.2% in the third quarter, driven primarily by a decline in Office sales of approximately 25%.

Source: CFN News Desk
October 24, 2020
Designers

Clever Podcast about Design: Interior Designer Kara Mann

Source: CFN News Desk
October 24, 2020
Designers
Clever Podcast about Design: Interior Designer Kara Mann

She runs her own studio and has racked up clients like Virgil Abloh, Goop and several luxury hotels. She’s just launched a collection with CB2 and a line of home essentials called Kept.

Source: CFN News Desk
October 24, 2020
Construction, Economy

Despite an ongoing decline in architecture firm billings, indicators of future work continue to improve

Source: CFN News Desk
October 24, 2020
Construction, Economy
Despite an ongoing decline in architecture firm billings, indicators of future work continue to improve

Despite the multi-family residential sector showing signs of improvement, overall business conditions are recovering at a disappointingly slow pace.

Source: Quartz at Work
October 24, 2020
Work From Home

How Frank Lloyd Wright designed a distraction-free home office

Source: Quartz at Work
October 24, 2020
Work From Home
How Frank Lloyd Wright designed a distraction-free home office

How would America’s greatest architect design a home office? Could Frank Lloyd Wright, who had visionary solutions for contemporary living—from sustainable design, air conditioning, even open-plan offices—have an answer to the search for ideal Covid-era remote working configurations?

Source: CFN News Desk
October 22, 2020
Manufacturer

Kimball Int. announces team to lead new Workplace Business Unit

Source: CFN News Desk
October 22, 2020
Manufacturer
Kimball Int. announces team to lead new Workplace Business Unit

The new unit will leverage the company’s proven strengths of best-in-class customer experience, product development and brand marketing across three distinct brands within the Workplace: Kimball, National and Etc.

Source: CFN News Desk
October 21, 2020
Manufacturer

Landscape Forms Announces Lighting Partnership with the St. Louis Lighting Group

Source: CFN News Desk
October 21, 2020
Manufacturer
Landscape Forms Announces Lighting Partnership with the St. Louis Lighting Group

SLLG will be representing Landscape Form’s lighting portfolio, working in the Eastern Missouri Region with Stacy Ernst of Site Source, LLC, who represents both Landscape Forms’ furniture and lighting products.

Source: CFN News Desk
October 19, 2020
Ergonomics, Work From Home, Working Life

Watch: Working from home? Don’t leave your ergonomics at the office!

Source: CFN News Desk
October 19, 2020
Ergonomics, Work From Home, Working Life
Watch: Working from home? Don’t leave your ergonomics at the office!

Needless to say, working from home is here to stay. Whether that is working from home all the time or just having the options and flexibility to do either, there is no escaping this new normal we live in.

Source: CFN News Desk
October 19, 2020
Manufacturer

HNI Corporation Reports Third Quarter Office Furnishings Sales Fell 27 percent

Source: CFN News Desk
October 19, 2020
Manufacturer
HNI Corporation Reports Third Quarter Office Furnishings Sales Fell 27 percent

Orders in the Workplace Furnishings segment excluding eCommerce declined 25 percent year-over-year.

Source: Fast Company Design
October 19, 2020
Workplace, Workplace Design

Yes, COVID-19 really is destroying the open office

Source: Fast Company Design
October 19, 2020
Workplace, Workplace Design
Yes, COVID-19 really is destroying the open office

This is the beginning of the end of an office design workers love to hate.

Source: Haworth
October 13, 2020
Coworking

6 Lessons We Can Learn from Coworking Spaces

Source: Haworth
October 13, 2020
Coworking
6 Lessons We Can Learn from Coworking Spaces

Insights provide design guidance for corporate workspaces.

Source: JLL Trends & Insights
October 13, 2020
Real Estate, Workplace, Workplace Wellness

Why companies want proof buildings are healthy

Source: JLL Trends & Insights
October 13, 2020
Real Estate, Workplace, Workplace Wellness
Why companies want proof buildings are healthy

Certifications ranking health in office buildings are cropping up in major real estate markets as COVID raises the stakes on employee wellbeing.

Source: propmodo
October 13, 2020
Workplace Design, Workplace

As Our Work Lives Become More Dynamic, Offices Need to Match

Source: propmodo
October 13, 2020
Workplace Design, Workplace
As Our Work Lives Become More Dynamic, Offices Need to Match

Just what is a dynamic workplace, you ask? It’s an adjustable environment, one that is constantly adapting to meet the needs of the people that use it. It has flexible desk seating, or seating that combines fixed and flexible options.

Source: Workplace Insight
October 12, 2020
Workplace Design

Office design will respond to the events of this year as it always has – by getting better

Source: Workplace Insight
October 12, 2020
Workplace Design
Office design will respond to the events of this year as it always has – by getting better

Although we can trace forms of clerical work at least back to at least the Ancient Egyptians, the office as we understand it only came into being in the early 20th Century.

Source: BisNow
October 12, 2020
Real Estate, Remote Working, Working Life, Workplace

New Satellite Offices Could Offer Suburbs A Lifeline, But So Far It Isn't Happening

Source: BisNow
October 12, 2020
Real Estate, Remote Working, Working Life, Workplace
New Satellite Offices Could Offer Suburbs A Lifeline, But So Far It Isn't Happening

Most corporate offices remain depopulated, even empty, and landlords everywhere worry what the future holds.

Source: Wired
October 12, 2020
Flex Space, Workplace, Workplace Design

Flexible workspaces will be the answer to Covid-19 office issues

Source: Wired
October 12, 2020
Flex Space, Workplace, Workplace Design
Flexible workspaces will be the answer to Covid-19 office issues

Working from home has exposed the failings of old-fashioned workplaces. Employees need creative spaces that actually work for human beings like those offered by Fora.

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