Meet the Team: Bonnie Null
With twenty-five years of experience in accounting and payroll in various industries, Bonnie keeps things flowing and paid – which are two very important things in any business! When she’s not crunching numbers or signing checks, what keeps Bonnie busy? Read More »
Changing Perspectives — Designing via Partnerships
Design Partnerships with National Accounts As the COVID19 pandemic sweeps through our country and the world, corporations are busy determining their strategic approaches to business continuity, particularly as states begin entering into the restart phase and employees begin returning to Read More »
The Inside Story of How Studio Creativity Thrives
By Rachael Schmid The power of a well-designed workspace isn’t exactly news. But for the employee who shows up to work at a brand-new workspace, there are few things more impactful on day-to-day quality of life. In the last Read More »
The power of “Design Fixation”
Your first design idea is always the one you feel most confident about. It may not be your best one but you fixate on it anyway. Thirteen professionals from the United Kingdom were asked how to work their way around Read More »
Breakrooms, the Office’s “New” Hangout…
Office breakrooms have always been where an employee goes for coffee in the morning and lunch in the afternoon, but with their outdated designs, no one wanted to stay for an extended amount of time. Now, that’s a thing of Read More »
Balancing “We” and “Me”
This article, written by Steelcase researchers and published in the Harvard Business Review, really addresses the balance between the top two factors for productivity and satisfaction: The ability to do distraction-free solo work Support for impromptu interactions Which are, of Read More »
Sound Matters
By far, the most informative, unbiased, and useful report EVER on acoustics in the workplace. This universally relevant topic applies directly to the number one factor influencing employee performance and satisfaction – the ability to do distraction free solo work*. Read More »
Designing a Workplace for Wellbeing
Two great design principles used to achieve the project goal: “How can our environment not just contain how work gets done, but be a catalyst [to evolve] the business?” Seizing the opportunity to make a cultural and philosophical change interwoven Read More »
Make way for the Millennials
A more thorough article with great examples of specific space types – particularly the office commons as the new social hub of the workplace. Our experience is consistent with the overall trend toward reducing square footage assigned to individual work-spaces Read More »
Workplace Trends
Searching for the Holy Grail of workplace design? Does it exist? Probably not, or at least it looks a little different for every situation. This article describes some changes in thought and direction that we have definitely been seeing and Read More »
Activity Spaces Defined
How can our building environments and spaces keep up with the fast-paced, ever-changing workforce? Gone are the days when private offices reigned supreme and when the water cooler was the only casual meeting place where you could share a collaborative Read More »