How to Handle the Pivot from Standard to Custom Furniture in the Contract Industry
Times are changing rapidly in the contract furniture world. From open-plan offices to curated spaces, the market is demanding unique furniture designs you won’t see anyplace else. Yet, many of us still find the thought of commissioning custom furniture to a be a daunting proposition. But the truth is — it’s not anymore. We asked […]
Orgatec 2018: American & European Office Design Trends Converging or Diverging?
Formaspace toured the international office furniture exposition ORGATEC 2018 held in Cologne, Germany. Here is our report on the top trends in European office design. As 2018 comes to a close, Jeff Turk, Formaspace’s CEO, and Jodi Gaines, Formaspace’s Office Brand Manager, crossed the pond to attend the biennial office contract furniture exposition ORGATEC 2018, […]
How Social Spaces Help Foster a Creative Corporate Culture
Are you familiar with the recent phenomenon of companies creating dedicated social spaces to encourage their employees to interact with one another face-to-face at the office? We take a look at why leading-edge companies — from Google to Hyatt Hotels Corporation — are investing in social spaces, which are designed to build a cohesive workplace […]
Should Your Company Embrace Reverse Mentoring?
Organizations today are faced with a unique challenge: management needs to encompass the needs and skill sets of the most diverse labor workforce ever. Although workforces that comprise multiple generations is not new, the span of years represented has never been so wide. Many workplaces today are represented by four generations. Two camps, the Millennials […]
Attract Talent & Transform Workplaces with These Design Trends
With today’s high employment rates, companies are finding that attracting talent is one of their biggest challenges. Offering higher salaries than the competition may not be the only option for attracting talent. Instead, many leading companies are changing their office design and improving workplace engagement to attract and retain their top employees. Five Recruiting Strategies […]
Why Does Your Office Need a Makerspace?
What’s the secret to building a more creative, innovative work culture? Many of the world’s leading-edge companies are adopting the best practices of collaborative, project-oriented university student culture to give their corporate office environments a competitive advantage over their rivals. As a result, we’re not only seeing rapid adoption of open campus-style office environments inspired […]
We Asked Experts: Do Millennials Want Privacy in Open Office?
We now have some of the first empirical research on how worker behavior changes as a result of working in open office environments. Research underwritten by Harvard Business School found that study participants actually spent 72% less time interacting face-to-face, while the use of electronic interactions (email, messaging, etc.) increased by 20% – 50% during […]
Expectations from Industry Experts for NeoCon 2018
As we look ahead to NeoCon’s 50th anniversary in Chicago this June 11-13, we speak with contract furniture industry experts to get their insights on what to expect. We also have a couple more NeoCon teasers to keep you on your toes before the event. Be sure to join us at Formaspace Office Booth #7-8042, […]
Formaspace Contract to Unveil Custom Furniture at NeoCon 2018
Visit Booth 7-8042, June 11–June 13 at the Chicago Merchandise Mart Austin, Texas, 5/14/2018—Formaspace Contract is excited to announce its attendance at the 50th-anniversary edition of the NeoCon contract furniture show in Chicago this June. To help celebrate NeoCon’s golden anniversary, Formaspace Contract will introduce 50 new choices to their design palette, from material choices, […]
Design Trends Everyone Can Learn from a College Campus
As more and more Millennials enter the workplace, they are gravitating toward corporate campus work environments that mimic the best features of college campus facilities, ranging from informal collaboration spaces for group projects to light-filled libraries that offer quiet places to study. Companies who are actively competing to recruit Millennial workers are acting on this […]