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Office Design meets Virtual RealityWorkplace Insight

When it’s time for an office upgrade, it can be difficult to imagine a redesigned space. You are so accustomed to the layout, flow, and furniture of the existing space that your vision may be limited and biased. Fortunately, the interior designers at Office Environments employ a few tools that allow customers to visualize the space before committing to a new-and-improved design plan.

Pandemic Proofing: How to Reconfigure your Office SpaceWorkplace Insight

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced employers and workers to adapt to new ways of getting work done. Working from home has become the new normal, commutes have been diminished to just a walk to the kitchen table, and in-person meetings have been replaced by Zoom calls.

Light up your Workspace with Effective Lighting DesignWorkplace Insight

Is there enough natural light flowing into your workspace? Natural light has the power to not only boost the morale of your employees but also increase their productivity, concentration, and creativity. Lighting is an important factor in ergonomics, but it’s often overlooked by employers.

Biophilic Design Is Possible for All Workspaces - Here’s WhyWorkplace Insight

Biophilic design can be beneficial to companies like Apple to offices, schools, and hospitals. Here's how to implement it in your workspace.

Creating a Culture-Forward Setting for Employees to ThriveWorkplace Insight

Culture-forward is the demand of the modern workforce. The days of heavy wood paneling and traditional hunter green in the office place are as yesterday as the multiple-martini lunch, and it’s time to welcome in a new era to reflect where we are and what’s next on the agenda.

Ergonomic Design and Its Impact on Work ProductivityWorkplace Insight

To design exclusively on aesthetics does not a happy worker make. As workers ebb and flow throughout their workplace, they need furniture and spaces that encourage productivity and comfort. Furniture and design must address it all.

Biophilic Design: Bringing The Outdoors InWorkplace Insight

In a 2015 article from Metropolis Magazine, Stephen R. Kellert, Professor Emeritus, Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, penned the rubric for biophilic design, an outdoors-in approach of thoughtful reconnection through nature-focused design. The article pulled from Kellert’s prior research on the desire for kinship to nature in the modern environment.

Amplifying Your Workspace with Cost-Efficient DesignWorkplace Insight

Renovating an office space is a significant investment for many organizations. In the wake of start-up culture, many offices operate with lean efficiency, shirking high-budget office spending for stronger employee incentive and retention or market penetration.

How Technology Has Transformed Today’s Modern OfficeWorkplace Insight

In a word, flexibility is the defining feature of tomorrow’s workspace. Efficiency: a close second. In order to capitalize on the modern, shifting workforce, designers are forgoing tradition and creating blended workspaces that make use of cutting-edge technology.

When An Open Office Plan is Right For YouWorkplace Insight

Arguably, no other workplace topic is as hotly debated as open office floor plans: one camp believes it promotes interoffice communication and collaboration while the opposing camp believes it stifles creativity and focus. The truth, however, may lie somewhere in the middle.

Trends in Healthcare Furniture: Comfortable, Durable, Tech-FriendlyWorkplace Insight

Healthcare furniture fulfills a special niche: on one hand, it must be durable and comfortable. It must also be modern, fresh and inviting. Like any other industry, healthcare is constantly growing and transforming through technology and patient needs, and thus, so has healthcare furniture and design.

Sit-to-Stand Is Here to StayWorkplace Insight

Combined with good chairs, height-adjustable work surfaces provide 
the variety people need to sit well, stand well, and be well.

Design Crush of the Week: Mother NatureWorkplace Insight

In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, we've gathered a few insights on nature-based design to share how it can help achieve the ultimate sustainable workplace.

3 Signs You Need a New Office ChairWorkplace Insight

You may be asking yourself what difference it makes: A chair is a chair, right? Well, not quite.