Work Design Magazine

05/11/2025

Too many office strategies are still stuck on the wrong questions, such as “Is this space built for the job or the person?”

But questions like these miss the bigger picture.

Too many office strategies are still stuck on the wrong questions, such as “Is this space built for the job or the person?”

04/11/2025

From Roman bathhouses to touchless office toilets, restrooms have always reflected society’s values.

This World Toilet Day, PLASTARC explores how inclusive, biophilic, and gender-neutral restroom design can elevate everyday workplace experiences and reflect a culture of care.

This World Toilet Day, PLASTARC explores how inclusive, biophilic, and gender-neutral restroom design can elevate workplace experiences.

03/11/2025

As Manhattan’s office market evolves, companies are rethinking their next move — renovate or relocate?

Each choice carries unique opportunities for flexibility, culture, and design innovation in shaping the workplace of the future.

Renovate or relocate? Each choice carries unique opportunities for flexibility, culture, and design innovation in shaping the workplace of the future.

01/11/2025

Let’s skip the tired debate about whether people want to be back in the office.

They’re already there, some willingly, some with a badge swipe and a sigh.

So why is it that we focus so much on the “new norm” for employee behaviors and patterns, but not the new norm for our offices?

Why is it that we focus so much on the “new norm” for employee behaviors and patterns, but not the new norm for our offices?

31/10/2025

After decades of optimizing for space, efficiency, and cost, the workplace industry is finally facing a reckoning: the true measure of success isn’t utilization or occupancy—it’s how people feel at work.

After years of chasing efficiency and savings, the workplace industry is discovering that real success lies in how people feel at work.

30/10/2025

At Stonecutter, tp bennett designs a next-generation office that unites flexible, wellness-focused design with groundbreaking sustainability in one of London’s most historic districts.

tp bennett delivers a next-generation office that unites flexible, wellness-focused design with groundbreaking sustainability.

29/10/2025

Historically, the three-legged stool has been used as both a framework and metaphor for a system or philosophy that represents “the balance of critical components necessary for stability and success.”

The three-legged stool has long symbolized the balance of essential elements needed for stability and success.

28/10/2025

Old carpet, new life.

Broadloom carpet once destined for landfill is being transformed into reusable materials and innovative biobased resources through a partnership between Tarkett® and Flooring Foundation.

Broadloom carpet is being transformed into reusable materials and innovative biobased resources through Tarkett® and Flooring Foundation.

27/10/2025

The workplace is more than a physical environment. It’s an ecosystem where people bring their whole selves, aspirations, and challenges.

26/10/2025

At the Build Reuse conference in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a group of architects, designers, facility managers, deconstruction experts, and sustainability advocates gathered to explore a big question: How do we give buildings better endings?

At the Build Reuse conference in Saint Paul, experts gathered to tackle one big question: How can we give buildings better endings?

23/10/2025

In Toronto’s Liberty Village, Lebel & Bouliane reimagined 50,000 sq ft into a flexible, hybrid campus that unites 15 agencies and fuels collaboration, creativity, and community.

Lebel & Bouliane redesigned Plus Company’s 50,000 sq ft Toronto campus into a hybrid hub uniting 15 agencies with flexible, creative spaces.

21/10/2025

This September we tested out the Amia chair by Steelcase in NYC, inside and outside the office. Here’s how our experience went.

This September we tested out the Amia chair by Steelcase in NYC, inside and outside the office. Here's how our experience went.