Most of us could do with moving a bit more at work. Standing desks are all well and good, but The Level promises to change our work lives for the better. The aim is to keep you active while you work, stimulating blood flow. This ...
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In the last decade, start-up offices have risen to the forefront of smart designs and quirky, innovative spaces. We’ve compiled our top 5 list of features productive start up spaces share. 1. Location: Businesses on a budget often ...
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In 1967, designer Robert Propst for Herman Miller had a new vision for the office space. Calling it the Action Office II, the partially enclosed environment offered greater privacy and productivity for the modern office worker. These ...
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Sitting down all day is bad for you, or so doctors say. There's been a burst of interest in standing desks, but they're not that easy to use, and it's hard to motivate sitters to stand. Stir, a company founded by a former Apple engineer, ...
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While this workstation might look like a cubicle, don’t be fooled. The Docklands line by Bene was designed to offer private workspace in an open office plan. Workers duck in when they need to concentrate and go back into the crowd ...
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The average New Yorker probably doesn't get too many opportunities to grow their own organic produce while toiling away in an office cubicle. What's a health-conscious worker to do when they're craving seasonal veggies for lunch but only ...
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If your definition of a workout is balancing a box of doughnuts in one hand and and an extra large (excuse us, Venti) vanilla latte in the other before sitting in your office cubicle all day, it might be time to reevaluate your fitness ...
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We all love our tablets and smartphones, but do our gadgets love us back? In the ergonomic sense, definitely not. It's nearly impossible to have good posture while using mobile technology. The rules we observed so religiously when we were ...
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In the bad old days, going to work meant commuting for hours to a freezing cold office building to slave away under fluorescent lights for eight-plus hours a day. Often, you were tethered to your desk by wired computer networks and landline ...
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In the bad old days,offices were one-size-fits-all.Sure,you had a few choices(Cubicles,or offices?Should we put the filing cabinet to the left of the desk,or to the right?),but for the most part,office environments were more alike than they ...
The humble cubicle is many things today: A symbol of the workplace, a place where many Americans transact their working hours, and the butt of jokes and parody. But believe it or not, it was invented in 1967 as an alternative to rigid, ...
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Let's face it: offices aren't health clubs. We spend eight-plus hours a day crouched over a keyboard, swilling coffee and eating high-fructose corn syrup in hopes of staving off the lethargy only fluorescent lights and corporate art can ...
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In the bad old days, offices were one-size-fits-all. Sure, you had a few choices (Cubicles, or offices? Should we put the filing cabinet to the left of the desk, or to the right?), but for the most part, office environments were more alike ...
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As anyone who reads the news knows by now,sitting all day long is killing us.Even if we work out,the effects of slouching behind our monitors will eventually catch up to us.New office furniture,like treadmill desks and the like,promise some ...
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