Today’s offices are being reshaped for the new reality. What are the technologies that designers are incorporating into the new workstyle?
How RFID is Making Museums Enchanting
Today’s museums aren’t the dusty institutions of past centuries. They are vibrant, exciting places, and RFID is part of the museum magic.
Are Hybrid Offices the New Normal?
WFH has proven productivity benefits, but so do offices. Can businesses get the best of both worlds by establishing hybrid offices?
Re-Designing Facilities with Health and Safety in Mind
A new FM job: the environmental health director, charged with designing systems to reduce infectious diseases and optimize tenants’ health and safety.
Saluting Good Design: The 2019 Innovation by Design Awards
Congratulations to the honorees of Fast Company’s 2019 Innovation by Design Awards for retail environments. These companies are recognized for their forward-thinking designs that serve markets better and offer more productivity and profitability to their owners. From...
3 Ways Office Design Can Make Room for Gen Z
You’ve worked hard to make your offices attractive to millennials – open sight lines, “water cooler” collaborative centers, glass-box conference rooms, and hot-desking. Now Gen Z is about to move into the business world in large numbers. Will the wide-open...
One Way to Fix Your Open Office Plan
The open office plan isn’t everything we’d hoped it would be. Once touted as the magic bullet for productivity, creativity, and collaboration, the open office plan in reality is too noisy, too public, and too distracting for heads-down workers. Rather than...
Where’s My Stuff? The Hoteling Conundrum
Like it or not, office hoteling is a reality for many workers today. For those whose work is self-contained, and who enjoy choosing where to do their work on any given day, the flexibility of hoteling is highly desirable. For those whose work requires access to...
What College Campuses are Teaching Office Designers
Remember those carefree college days, hanging out in the stairwells, meeting on the quad, studying in the library, the cafeteria, the student lounge, wherever? Then you began your career and all that spatial freedom was suddenly gone, and you had to be in one place....
Your Office Shows How Much You Trust Your Team
Trust – we all agree it’s fundamental to any organization. Employees have to trust their bosses, managers have to trust their staff, customers have to trust the business. And it’s far easier said than done. How do you create a work environment that reinforces trust...