Design News

The emphasis on comfort, flexibility and choice in the workplace indicates the growing trend of employees deciding how and where they work best, customizing their workday and workspace to be most effective across several work modes.

Inspired by San Francisco’s tattoo culture, discover the personal stories behind the tattooed LessThanFive Chair featured in our showroom at NeoCon. You can now personalize the LessThanFive Chair with our new customizer web application.

As the dividing line between work and life is blurred, the desire for flexibility and comfort in the office is driving a shift toward ancillary spaces that offer more than the traditional desk-and-task-chair combination.

As workers are putting in longer hours and performing creativity- and knowledge-based duties more than ever, the office has become a venue for personal expression, rather than a purely functional space. In this month’s news aggregate, we explore how new research and the experiences of A&D professionals emphasize the benefits of personalized solutions in the workplace. 

Research is constantly demonstrating the importance of the office to employees and its impact on employee engagement, retention and productivity. In this month’s news aggregate, we highlight five stories that emphasize the office’s role in creativity, connection and collaboration among teammates.

In our monthly design news aggregate, we’re featuring three programs that offer designers the chance to positively impact the global community.

Office design trends are making creative collaboration a key focus of the workplace, and research supports this direction.

A Coalesse product engineer shares the insights and features that makes the Potrero415 Table line unique. 

Can a great workplace inspire great work? Groundbreaking new research from Steelcase explores the connection between employee engagement and the work environment.