In This Issue:

• Humanscale Launches Residential Designer Trade Program

• DIRTT Third-quarter revenue fell short of expectations as loss grows

• Office Furniture Supplier Aims for Record Year Despite Shipping Delays

• Flexible workspace provider Uncommon launches first office furniture collection

• The office of the future will be a leader-free, social-space

• Students are the next target for co-working spaces. Campuses are taking note

• Shopify makes a major design industry acquisition

• "Woman Made: Great Women Designers" by Jane Hall

• The next phase of remote work will be even more disruptive

• Here’s what the future of work looks like after COVID-19

• Manhattan Office Leasing Hit New Highs In October, But So Did Availability

• Workers Aren't Running Back To Boston's Recovering Office Market

• Recruitment drive sees majority of firms embed flexible working policies

• Remote Work Policies Embroiled in Historic Worker Movement

• Herman Miller Dealer Stealer

• The ultimate office amenity in 2021? Fresh air

• Desperate Office Landlords Are Offering Double Commissions to Brokers

• All those people quitting jobs, where are they going?

• Announcing the Shaw Contract Design Awards 2021 Winners!

• Teknion Introduces WithIn™

• Flos introduces Oblique Qi - a compact table lamp with wireless charging base

• Zaha Hadid + Karimoku Furniture Collaborate on a Furniture Collection

• Recycled plastic REX chair by Ineke Hans is sold with refundable deposit

• Spacesmith Creates A New HQ for Nonprofit Legal Provider, NYLAG

• Foster + Partners flanks Istanbul Apple store with travertine stone walls

• In This Issue:

• Steelcase Acquires Spanish Design Company Viccarbe

• Vinnie Johnson shutters office furniture dealership Airea

• HNI Shares Slide As Inflation Bites Into Q3, Margin Shrinks

• West Michigan's largest furniture manufacturers to require COVID-19 vaccine

• ABI September 2021: Architecture firm billings end the summer on a strong note

• Significant Year-Over-Year Growth Across North America - Pipeline Index Remains Robust, above 50%

• What Designers Need to Know about Supply Chain Disruption

• New Demand for Office Space Drops in September

• Designing a Workplace That Optimizes for Movement and Mobility

• Soaring U.S. business starts in pandemic show new normal evolving

• This is What Hybrid Work Looks Like in Action

• Where Flex Fits in the Return to the Office

• Covid Acted As A Pivot And Is Bringing New Tech Into The Office World

• A burst of technological innovation is reshaping the future of work

• How Hybrid Work Will Transform Our Workplaces

• Enticing Reluctant Workers Back To The Office Will Test Companies' Leadership

• 'Stunning' Percentage Of Companies Haven't Set Hybrid Work Plans: EY Survey

• Impact of flexible work demonstrates a fragile post-pandemic business world

• Employees are designing the workplace of the future

• Most remote workers judge how co-workers' home offices look in video calls

• Working in an office on Thursdays 4 times more popular than Mondays

• The benefits of having dogs at work

• WeWork Finally Gets Its Debut as a Public Company Trading on NYSE

• Flex Office's Supply-Demand Drivers Point to Further Growth

• Returning to the Physical Workplace - What's At Stake?

• Future Of Work: Landlords Need To Start Leveraging The Power Of AI, Here's Why.

• Chicago's Downtown Office Market's Downward Trend Will Continue For Months As Covid Blocks Typical Recovery

• Productivity concerns remain as more people tentatively return to office

• Is home working too homely?

• Helping the planet one chair at a time

• Work-From-Home Successes Prove You Can Live, Thrive in Palm Springs

• The Reimagined Workspace: Amobi by AMQ

• Tinnef from Scandinavian Spaces Awarded 3 Best of NeoCon Awards - Gold, Innovation, and Sustainability The occasional table is a beacon of what future generations demand from the built environment

• Back at the office with noisy coworkers? This privacy hood keeps sounds and nosy people away

• Emeco introduces “Truss” collection by Erwan & Ronan Bouroullec

• Federica Biasi designs Kokoro Working Box for Manerba

• Herman Miller Wants To Put Their Art in Your House As Much As You Do

• Normann Copenhagen’s new headquarters-cum-flagship functions as a spatial marketing campaign

• Hendy Gives Nogin A Colorful California Office Space

In This Issue:

• How Younger Workers’ Preferences and Workstyles Will Define the Future Workplace

• One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Employees’ Needs Are Changing Work Spaces

• Here’s Why Employees at Top-Performing Companies Need the Office

• How Working From Home Could Change Where Innovation Happens

• 5 ways companies are helping employees return to the office

• Reimagined office lobbies can serve as shared cultural hubs

• Should Your Office Be More Like a Clubhouse? This HQ Makes the Case

• Why Technology is Key to Delivering Occupier Flexibility

• So what's happening to all the plexiglass we thought was a solution last year?

• Texas-based Air Force agency converting to mostly telework in ‘Office of the Future’

• How Eco-Friendly Is Remote Working?

• Hybrid work attitudes – leadership still face challenges aligning their strategy

• VTS To Acquire Workplace Experience Platform Used By Brookfield, Oxford, Hines

• Net Office Absorption is Now Trending Positive in Majority of US Metros

• The Economic Impact of a Hybrid Office

• Goodmans interior Structures becomes Arizona's exclusive distributor for Herman Miller and Knoll

• Corporate Interior Systems Establishes Preeminent Partnership with Haworth

• New furniture at NeoCon captures today's workplace trends

• Configura Wins Best of NeoCon Gold for Stage

• 10 Questions With… Barber Osgerby

• 2021 Healthcare Design Awards

• Office furniture firm Bisley appoints first creative director

• Adela Rex Collection Demonstrates the Beauty + Sustainability of Plywood

• This chair style is all over social media—here's how to get one

• Koroseal Partners with Stacy Garcia | New York to Launch an Exclusive, Urban-Inspired Wallcovering Collection

• MdeAS Breathes New Life into Historic McGraw-Hill Building at 330 West 42nd Street

• Take a Tour of Microsoft Australia's Fully Immersive Space By GroupGSA

In This Issue:

• Office Occupancy Stabilized In Q3, Ushering In The Next Phase Of Uncertainty

• The Next Workplace to Bring People Together

• NYC Construction Employment To Hit Lowest Level Since 2014

• London office market falls thanks to uptake of remote work

• NYC Construction Employment To Hit Lowest Level Since 2014

• 4 ways to navigate your return to the office

• A safe and secure workplace as we emerge from the pandemic? Here's how

• Organizations prioritize technologies for the year ahead

• Knight Dragon’s Kerri Sibson on flexing to the workspace demands of London’s creative class

• Will WeWork Work?

• The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

• Herman Miller’s Design Yard transformation

• Try These Cool Alternatives to Traditional Coworking Spaces

• Managers can be blind to some of the stresses of home workers

• Extremis Openings Permanent Chicago Showroom in The Merchandise Mart

• Herman Miller Partners with USA Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai to Explore the Future of Work

• The New Hybrid Office Playbook, as tested by SF Bay Area Businesses.

• Bank of America 'very focused on getting our people back to the office'

• Z-Bar Lighting by Koncept Gets an Upgrade With the Gen 4 Line

• Meet the next-generation of bookable work pods

• Kimball Introduces EverySpace – A Creative Framework for the Future

• Unika Vaev Introduces Four New Acoustic Products from Instyle

• Nate: a wooden furniture collection from Brunner and ASK

• Mannington Commercial Introduces Amtico Active Lines Collection

• Fresh Introductions for Fall. So.Many.Choices.

• NeoCon 2021 Trend: Coziness Factor

• Snøhetta designs co-working space in Tokyo

In This Issue:

• Workers Back At The Office At Highest Rate Since Pandemic Began

• Workers feel more trusted and motivated thanks to hybrid working

• Janet Pogue McLaurin On Where Work and The Workplace is Headed

• The pandemic changed co-working needs—WeWork and Feather have partnered to meet them

• Tangram Announces Strategic Partnership with Symbiote

• 4 ways to navigate your return to the office

• Canadian Design Firm Ivy Studio Is Revolutionizing Contract Interiors

• Developers Are Betting On Live-work-play Communities To Attract New Tenants

• Remote workers to enjoy increased tax relief, Irish government announces

• Emerging Growth Firms Are Driving Manhattan’s Office Resurgence

• Considerations for a Truly Multi-Generational Business

• Wellbeing, mental health and loneliness become major business concerns

• Shift to hybrid working highlights the value of weak ties

• Blueprint for Inclusive Workplaces of the Future

• How to Make Your Office More Than Just an Office

• Maharam Launches Outside In at ICA, University of Pennsylvania

• Brands don't prioritise sustainability "unless they see dollar signs" says Benjamin Hubert

• Promoting Well-being in the Workplace Using Restorative Design

• Return of Office Workers Reaches Pandemic High as Employees Trickle In

• What the Return to the Office Will Look Like

• Interview with Daniel Stromborg from Gensler about "Mixu"

• Wagner Living: "D2" for "Workspace in progress" at the MAKK

• Icons of Denmark exhibits new 4T System designed in collaboration with Hee Welling

• QUORUM MULTICONFERENCE by Lacasse

• Kimball Announces New Product Introductions That Diversify Their Portfolio

• AIS Wraps a Successful Show at NeoCon 2021

• Announcing the 2021 Best of NeoCon 2021 Award Winners

• National Office Furniture Releases New Product Enhancements Tailored to Add Comfort to the Workplace

• WallGoldfinger Furniture’s Doko line earns Special Mention in Architizer A+Product Awards

• Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’

• Design Pool, LLC. Receives HiP Award & Metropolis Likes at NeoCon 2021

• Steelcase Hybrid Solutions Receive NeoCon 2021 Awards

• Vocon Creates An Industrial-Inspired NYC HQ For Avison Young

In This Issue:

• Richard Schultz, Designer Who Made the Outdoors Modern, Dies at 95

• Ted Moudis Associates Presents New Manhattan Office for Ducera PartnersNew Steelcase CEO sees opportunity in rapidly shifting office furniture industry

• Tarkett to Relocate Showroom to Chicago’s Fulton Market

• Workers feel more trusted and motivated thanks to hybrid working

• What to consider when designing the intergenerational workspace

• Cisco releases new hybrid work index based on millions of data points!

• Amazon (AMZN) Softens Return-to-Office Policy, Says Remote Work Is Fine

• What can the workplace learn from lockdown?

• Designing for neurodiversity builds healthier workplaces for all

• A New Generation of Designers Brings 'Sloppy Craft' to Commercial Interiors

• What Corporate Offices Can Learn From The Co-Working Space Boom

• WeWork Done Cutting Locations, Projects $1.5B Loss In 2021

• Office furniture makers are getting creative about the environment

• The Great Office Furniture Reshuffling

• Brits shun traditional working hours, favoring flexibility and family life

• Boston Mayor Signs Law Requiring All Buildings Over 20K SF To Be Net Zero Within 30 Years

• Covid Spells The End For Office Buildings Already On Their Last Legs

• Launching the new WELL Enterprise Provider designation in collaboration with IWBI

• Herman Miller Group Chicago Showroom at Fulton Market Achieves WELL v2 Gold Level Certification

• North America Custom Acoustics Manufacturer Launches Biophilic Moss Design & Engineering Company

• 3D Printing: Case Study "Lounge Chair Slope" by Oechsler

• Philippe Starck Teams Up With Andreu World on Sustainable Seating Line

• Keilhauer's New Collaboration With Form Us With Love and More

• NARBUTAS Marks Successful Opening of the New Chicago Showroom During Neocon 2021

• Ted Moudis Associates Presents New Manhattan Office for Ducera Partners

In This Issue:

• The clever trick one firm is using to design furniture for the hybrid work era

• Open offices failed. These are 6 essentials to make sure the next office doesn’t

• Hybrid Offices Come With More Data Privacy Challenges

• Hotels Seizing Hybrid Opportunities Dropped by Offices

• The next-gen smart office will be built on employee data. Is that what we want?

• Future housing will be built to facilitate remote working, say panellists of Aritco talk

• No Place Like Home: To Draw Workers Back, Designers Making Offices Look More Like Living Rooms

• WeWork's launch with furniture rental company Feather includes local coworking spaces

• Shaping the Future of Work: Three stages of transformation

• Design history has conveniently excluded women. That’s finally changing

• What To Expect When We Return to The Office - Part 2

• Disconnect between executives and employees on returning to the office

• SPACE, Inc. Awarded $50M Blanket Purchase Agreement from FDA

• During NeoCon an Installation Lights Up the Mart

• DARRAN's Honey Collection wins Best of NeoCon Competition and NeoCon Gold

• Ultrafabrics, global leader in performance fabrics launches Uf Select its first offering made in North America

• Our Favorites From NeoCon 2021

• Allsteel Receives Four Awards at NeoCon 2021

• Hightower Returns to NeoCon With a New, Award-Winning Showroom

• See the 8 most amazing sights at Nike’s new LeBron James Innovation Center

• LX Hausys America Introduces New Pietra Collection by HIMACS Solid Surface

In This Issue:

• Armbruster takes over as Steelcase president and CEO

• Haworth forms new partnership with Pennsylvania-based manufacturer Emeco

• Tangram Acquires BKM Total Office of Texas

• New Analysis Has Majority Returning to Office in Q1 2022

• Bringing home into the workplace: Why offices are embracing domestic design

• Trendway focuses on reconnecting people and reactivating flexible workspaces at NeoCon

• QUORUM Multiconference Wins a Best of NeoCon Silver Award

• Gabriel Opens its Largest Showroom Globally in Chicago During NeoCon

• See the DreamCube, the immersive spectacle that’s like walking into a video game

• A divine spark of inspiration for office occupiers and designers

• Follow Me table by Mara

• Fil Doux Textiles Bursts Into Outdoor Market Segment with Collection of Premium, Sustainably-Minded Outdoor Fabrics

• A Functional Post-Pandemic Office that Inspires

In This Issue:

• Ready or Not, Purposeful Work Is Coming

• Herman Miller, Inc. Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2022 Results

• Herman Miller Exclusive Manufacturer of the National Museum of Norway's Competition Chair Design Winner "Portrait"

• Configura announces acquisition of ProjectMatrix

• Professional Associations and Metropolis Create the Interior Design Pledge for Positive Impact

• The One Element Missing From The Hybrid Workplace Conversation

• Delta Variant Slowing, Not Ending Office Recovery

• Boston, Texas, Florida Set Pace for US Office Recovery

• Cisco In Talks To Establish Huge Midtown Atlanta Office

• Is the Office Market Stabilizing?

• The Frustration with Productivity Culture

• Andreu World’s Conversations About Work Takes Readers Beyond Shop Talk

• The truth about the workplace comes out of the well

• Workers are putting on pants to return to the office only to be on Zoom all day

• Is Coworking the Solution To Remote Work Isolation?

• 5 tips to help you choose the right office chair

• Eames…Sneakers? Why Fashion Is Obsessed With Furniture

• Logicdata announces Historic Move to "One-Stop-Shop" for Customized Adjustable Legs, Frames

• NARBUTAS Opens a New Chicago Showroom During Neocon 2021

• Gabriel Opens its Largest Showroom Globally in Chicago

• Steelcase Unveils Ergonomic Chair Designed for 21st Century Work

• "Indeed" from Dauphin works in the office and in the home office

• Morbern takes the Heat out of Vinyl Seats with Koolfab

• The Atra Armchair Continues the Rising Trend of Indoor/Outdoor Furniture

• Leading Finnish green city Lahti sets up remote workstations in nature sites free for everyone to use

• TPG Architecture Gives Newsday A New Space Reflective Of Its Brand

In This Issue:

• Cushman & Wakefield Predicts Mass Return To Offices In Q1

• 5 Findings From New Study About the Value of the Office

• From office to workspace – how we work post pandemic will see further changes to the real estate market

• Office Equipment Sales Surge Due to Work-From-Home Battle Stations

• The suburban office park rises from the dead

• Report Finds Companies Are Underestimating The "Great Resignation"

• Remote working led to drop in high quality output, Microsoft study concludes

• Who’s really returning to the office? It’s not exactly who you think

• AIA: Billings Show Continued Strength in August

• Flex Giant IWG Weighs Breaking Itself Up

• Adding value to office design through roof terraces

• Leadership In an Era of Change Fatigue

• Innovant Introduces Palette, a Line of Multi-Function Private Office and Collaboration Furniture That Can Be Quickly Reconfigured for a Changing Workplace

• Designtex Introduces New Digitally-Printed Wallcoverings at NeoCon 2021

• AIS Heads to NeoCon 2021

• Ethnicraft Debuts Oak Stairs Lockers at NeoCon 2021

• Jetty:Mod Among Several New Collections from Allsteel at NeoCon 2021

• New textile samples solution Mercato Place unveils during NeoCon 2021

• North America Custom Acoustics Manufacturer Launches Biophilic Moss Design & Engineering Company

• Introducing the CURVO Collection: Three New Collaboration Tools for Flexible Workspaces

• LDI Interiors Launches EnviroSil® - New Line of Stain-Resistant Silicone Upholstery for Demanding Environments

• Successful hybrid: CML headquarters with luminaires by Artemide

In This Issue:

• 'Resimercial': The Terrible Word for Today’s Trendy Office Aesthetic

• HNI Corporation Provides Business Update

• Perkins&Will Gives Kimball A Clean, Light-Filled New Space in Dallas

• This $1.6 billion hospital redesign dramatically reduces ER wait times

• Steelcase Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2022 Results

• British Design Brand Established & Sons Teams Up with Steelcase

• MG West to Acquire Unisource Solutions’ Northern California Operations

• Ethosource celebrates a milestone mark of 20 years in the office furniture industry

• iOFFICE + SpaceIQ announces strategic investment by Autodesk

• Ten installations to see at the Chicago Architecture Biennial during NeoCon

• The 3 Biggest Coworking Trends Shaping up for 2022

• Danish design renaissance sees Copenhagen "becoming like the area around Milan"

• NYC Office Recovery Will be Subdued, Below Average: Fitch Ratings

• Report Finds Companies Are Underestimating The "Great Resignation"

• Three quarters of firms planning to change work culture

• More companies say goodbye to the office as COVID-19 rages and remote work gains acceptance

• Winds of change are blowing through the office

• Office Sublease Overhang Eased Slightly In August

• Leadership In an Era of Change Fatigue

• Want to be a great designer? Steal these 30 secrets from the world’s top experts

• Google to Spend $2.1 Billion on Manhattan Office Building

• Reshoring Surges As Supply Chain Snarls Live On

• Do Building Owners Have a Duty To Help Solve Airborne Illness?

• This book explains actually helpful actions you can take to fight climate change

• Here’s why flexibility, not hybrid, is what employees say they want

• Watch a live talk on the creative process with Benjamin Hubert

• NeoCon 2021: LINAK U.S. Inc. keeps you moving no matter where you work

• The Accord Collection from Concertex

• Resource Furniture's Giro Takes You From Desk to Dining Table for Four

• This invisible gadget turns any table into a wireless phone charger

• The SmartBOX Company Unveils a full line of American Made, Sustainably Manufactured Personal Work Pods

• Pair's new benching system with a waterfall edge, Fade

• Enhancing Eklund: National Office Furniture Fortifies a New Favorite

• Vitra Design Museum: "Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 - today"

In This Issue:

• What Is the Value of ‘Tattle Tech’ in the Modern Workplace?

• Jeanne Gang is creating a better future by building on the past

• How to deal with the coworker you hate as you return to the office

• Maximum flexibility, minimum hassle: Space as a service (SPaaS)

• Nearly Half Of Companies Want To Downsize Their Office Spaces Post-Pandemic: Report

• Remote Work Expected to Fuel Housing Demand for Years to Come

• Nook Wellness Pods provide Shelter, Comfort and Calm for NeoCon attendees

• Three questions to Jeannette Altherr

• People Don’t Want to Be In an Office Every Day but They Want Access to One

• Fresh New Energy From 9to5 Seating

• Okamura Introduces Phlox

• Introducing the HAL Lounge Chair

• Carl Hansen & Son Presents the Flexible Embrace Sofa

• Introducing Flek Pure: 3form’s New 100 Percent Recycled Architectural Material

• Ole Wanscher's T-Chair Given New Lease of Life at Carl Hansen & Son

• CannonDesign Swaps Old for High-Tech for the Cboe Global Markets in Chicago

• Christ & Gantenbein designs Roche office to give staff "a reason to come to work"

• Rapt Studio Employs an Outdoorsy-tech Aesthetic for VF Corporation’s Headquarters in Denver

• Whitney Brothers® Nature View Serenity Pod Wins Spaces4Learning 2021 New Product Award

In This Issue:

• Where Work Goes From Here

• Thriving in the Fluid Workplace

• Four insights from the workplace of the future

• Regenerative Workplace

• Your office air is making you stupider

• Ikea's massive gaming collection, including a very weird new product

• Virco Reports 5.8% Increase in Net Income for Second Quarter and Record Backlog

• Climate Action 2021: Real Estate Must Adapt

• WeWork Could Push Back Its Deadline To Go Public

• Office Door Handles Have 30 Times More Bacteria than Toilet Seats

• Offices Reopen With Safety Plans, but Big-City Commutes Spook Workers

• Inviting Nature into the Workplace

• Workers struggle with Delta "whiplash"

• Byrne Charging Helps Visitors Plug in (and play) at this year's ArtPrize

• Tangram Donates Classroom Desks and Workstations for Children at Orange County Rescue Mission Amid Hybrid School Year

• 16 Products from Milan’s Supersalone Reveal the Global Design Industry’s Response to Our New World

• This German startup lets you attend 3D trade shows in your browser

• Steelcase Outlines ESG Goals and Priorities in Annual Impact Report

• As Traditional Office Recovery Falters, Coworking Firms Continue To Bounce Back

• Anyplace Launches Anyplace Select, a New Type of Accommodation Designed for Remote Workers

• IKEA introduces movable sleeping capsules in Paris

• Japanese-Inspired Sculptural Installation Brings New Life to a Historic Seattle Building

• 9 to 5 no more: a London co-working space is designed for the post-COVID work world

In This Issue:

• SitOnIt parent Exemplis acquires Future Seating

• Interface to cut 5% of its workforce, close Thailand plant as part of restructuring

• Mark Baker named CEO at Santa Clara-based One Workplace

• Mannington Commercial Completes Purchase of AtlasMasland Assets

• Review: supersalone 2021

• Fashion brands steal the show at Milan Design Week 2021

• Delta Disrupts Office Return Plans. What Now?

• Virtual Build Outs Are Changing the Way Companies Shop for Office Space

• Zoom’s all-out blitz to become the king of hybrid work

• CRE Mulls Whether Federal Vaccine Rules Will Push Workers Back To Workplaces

• GSA's New Real Estate Head On The Future Of Federal Government Offices

• How office leasing is moving into the digital age

• For Iris Wang, Major Collaborations Show Persistence Pays Off

• This is how each generation is feeling about returning to the office

• This is who should (and shouldn’t) return to the office

• 5 ways houseplants support health and wellbeing at work

In This Issue:

• What do employees really want when they return to the office?

• Why Top-Performing Companies Are More Likely to Increase Their Real Estate Footprint Post-COVID

• Inscape Announces First Quarter Sales Fell 30.9%

• Lomads: Local, Flexible, and Coming to a Coworking Space Near You

• Empty Lobbies, Untouched Doughnuts And Shattered Plans: Offices Stayed Quiet The Day After Labor Day

• How 'Fixed-Flex' Space Could Be The Future Of Office

• The Future of Hybrid Work & Office Design

• If You Never Met Your Co-Workers in Person, Did You Even Work There?

• Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer

• A New Way to Look at Furniture in Milan

• Looking Forward: Conversations about the Future of Work from Herman Miller, on Apple Podcasts

• Sublease Space Remains Biggest Challenge For Office Sector

• The Great Labor Day Return To The Office That Wasn't

• Three International Lessons for U.S. Workplace Well-being

• 4 Emerging Patterns About Hybrid Work and the Future of the Office

• 8 Trends in Our Fireworks Economy

• Infographic: Three Reasons the Office Boosts Energy

• 5 Times We Wanted to Return to Office (& 5 Times We Didn’t)

• Back to the old office in a new world

• Hack the Pack

• EOOS for Carl Hansen & Son: New modular sofa "Embrace"

• Room For Zoom, A Modular Video Space For Hybrid Offices, Wants To Let You In Soon

• Design Pool, LLC. Releases The Cryptology Collections at NeoCon 2021

• Milan Design Week: New innovations in lighting design

• McKinnon and Harris Drop a Sleek New Umpire Chair Just in Time for the US Open

• At Work With: Here Design on Beautility

• Linklaters Hong Kong

• Stuttgart-based design studio Ippolito Fleitz Group creates an inspiring space for working at this vibrant HQ

• SHP Gives Tire Discounters A Modern Space That Facilitates Communication and Collaboration

• At work with: A look inside Here Design’s thriving London studio

In This Issue:

HNI Corporation Announces New Office Furniture Manufacturing Plant in Saltillo, Mexico

The Office-Demand Debate: Cushman & Wakefield Sounds a More Positive Tone

Office Sublease Space Appears to Have Peaked

ABI July 2021: Business conditions remain strong at architecture firms

Why Good Design and Empathy Are Key to Resuming Office Life Again

For the Office, the Future Is Now

Manhattan Office Leasing Hit New Pandemic High In August

Nearly two years after COVID sent them home, remote workers aren’t looking back

Business confidence back to pre-pandemic levels, with fewer plans to shrink offices

It’s official: Offices, homes, and kindergartens are full of polluted air

Biodegradable and Renewable Polyurethane Is Around the Corner

Can hybrid working help to make companies more inclusive?

Design in motion: 45 years of Magis

GSA takes the bold step to implement a hybrid workplace model

UBS CEO Says Staff Who Don’t Want Vaccine Can Work From Home

All The Right Moves

When Chance Encounters at the Water Cooler Are Most Useful

After 50 years, this leading design company is entering the contract market

NeoCon - A Scandinavian Spaces Folktale

Humanscale's Liberty Ocean Chair Joins Smart Ocean as the First Task Chairs Made from Recycled Fishing Nets

Herman Miller is all in on recycled plastic. What’s taking the rest of the industry so long?

Inside Don Norman’s Herculean quest to fix design education

Interior design for pets is a thing now—just ask this Brooklyn vet

Can approaching co-working spaces as cultural hubs promote more diverse use?

Facebook Workrooms brings the worst of in-person office life to virtual reality

How Thomas Jefferson came to invent the swivel chair

In This Issue:

• Remembering Andrew Morrison

• Offices Dangle Beehives and Garden Plots to Coax Workers Back

• AIA Finds Architect Salaries Stayed Flat During the Pandemic

• NeoCon 2021 promises a new round of office innovations

• Flexible Solutions For Wherever The Future Takes Offices

• Cities Need Office Workers. Do Office Workers Still Need Cities?

• Ikea is launching a furniture buyback program

• ‘Fast Company’ editors share their favorite office accessories

• 4 ways to inspire your reluctant employees to return to the office

• Twist&Sit Soft seating by Strand + Hvass for Narbutas

In This Issue:

• Growing health concerns and preference for hybrid work among US employees

• Is Now The Time To Move To A Flexible Workspace? A New Report Suggests So

• What are your plans concerning the upcoming NeoCon event in Chicago this October? Click and take our quick poll.

• Needed Space: Bosses Bristle As Employees’ Desire For Remote Work Grows

• How to keep it together when your employees all want different work arrangements

• What Dating App Data Tells Us About The Return To The Office

• Stefano Boeri on the concept of the supersalone

• Harbour Outdoor Buys Design District Retail Building For $7M

• Office Owners Lean Into Daycares And Outdoor Spaces To Lure Back Remote Workers

• Back to the Office: Lessons Learned

• Wellness Programs Aren't Working, Is Toxic Workplace Culture To Blame?

• Office Prices Fall In CBDs, Rise in Urban Submarkets As Vacancy Rates Level Off

• New Demand for Office Space Slows Over Delta Variant Uncertainty

• What Nap Pods & Bicycles Teach Us About the Future Showroom Experience

• Kraft Heinz’s move to a hybrid work model means big changes to its Chicago headquarters

• Five Firms, Including WeWork, Awarded New Federal Coworking Contract

• Working from home: how far we’ve come and where we might be headed

• How to Design Your Office for Improved Productivity

• ‘Workleisure’ is now a thing. Here are the best brands for a work-play wardrobe

• The Belt Furniture Collection by Claudio Larcher Design Studio

• The Climate System by Schiavello Adapts to the Ever-Evolving Workplace

• Round desk system by Narbutas

• NELSON Worldwide Gives Corix A Colorful Chicago Headquarters

In This Issue:

Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse

Office Occupancy May 'Never Return' To Pre-Pandemic Heights: Green Street

ConForm Architects creates "homely" office in brutalist Smithson Tower

This company had one of its best years ever after switching to a four-day week

It’s ‘Back to That Isolation Bubble’ for Workers Pining for the Office

Executives think work should be split 70:30 between office and home

Reimagining the office of the future in a post-pandemic world

Needless Construction And Architectural Arrogance: Climate Crisis And The Future Of Work

Adaptability in the Modern Office

Remote Work Is All Gen Z Knows. But Are They Satisfied?

Returning To The Office: Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Over two-thirds of employers are considering pay cuts for remote workers

Integra Debuts New Divider Panel for Its High Back Coffee House Seating

The Link

In This Issue:

• Why hybrid workplace pilots are taking off

• Longtime Boulder workplace solutions company BC Interiors purchased by David Chapman and Laura Boyd Chapman

• MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen Named One of Fast Company’s 2021 Most Creative People in Business

• Artificial intelligence "will empower designers" say Clippings co-founders

• Meet the New 9-to-5: An Enhanced Approach to Hybrid Work

• A Surprising Number of Companies Are Pushing For a Full Return to the Office

• Is Now The Time To Move To A Flexible Workspace? New Report Suggests So

• Lessons From India: 4 Interventions to Inform the Future Workplace

• Successfully Returning to the Office Requires Empathy, Proper Expectations, and Trust

• Do Anxious Officemates Make Case For A Delta Delay In Reopening Workplaces?

• Workplace technology helped meet short term lockdown challenges, but its real impact is yet to come

• Are knockoffs really so bad?

• Naughtone announces all Product Warranties now extend 10 Years

• The Growing Relevance of Third Places

• Some Advice for Companies Moving to Hybrid Work

• Live talk on designing future-ready offices with BDG Architecture + Design

• 4 myths about hybrid work that managers need to stop believing

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