Human beings are not designed for long periods of sedentary work. We must get up, move around, stretch, and change our environment periodically to keep engaged. Companies became...
As a response to cultural, economic, and physical needs as well as changing environments, trends happen. While some have commented that NeoCon 2019 didn’t have much in the way of...
It's only in the last hundred years that human beings have spent more time indoors than out. We are genetically conditioned to thrive in an outdoor environment, so it's no...
Office design has experienced nothing short of a revolution in the last 20 years. Cubicle farms are becoming a thing of the past, and while not every idea has worked according to...
Let's talk about the iPhone for a minute. What does that have to do with office design and the modern workplace? Bear with me a moment, and it'll become clear. Before the iPhone...
Most of us can agree traditional office spaces were not designed with human beings or the planet in mind. They were about maximizing space and minimizing budget. This often meant...
There's always one thing that employees working in open office designs can agree on: the noise is annoying. Distractions are the number one complaint by employees, followed...
Where did the term place-making come from? The concept of place-making, born out of the creative minds of urban planners in the vibrant '60s, emerged as a visionary initiative to...
Let's be honest, there's a lot riding on your office design. Study after study in recent years show how employee productivity, satisfaction, and health are affected by their work...
Despite Marie Kondo's decluttering prowess taking Netflix bingers by storm, there is a new design trend that flies in the face of everything the Spark Joy movement stands for:...