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Herman Miller
Reveals Global Workplace Trends
And New Product Introductions At
Neocon 2016
WORDS: Herman Miller
PHOTOS: Herman Miller
Company’s research identifies six key shifts in progressive
workplaces; records increases in engagement and innovation
in Living Office environments
At NeoCon 2016, Herman Miller is sharing new insights into how
people work, and the significant changes in the way spaces
are being planned to support them. As the floorplate continues
to shift towards settings beyond individual workstations,
Herman Miller has identified six distinct ways that progressive
organizations and their design partners are planning space
differently–with greater variety, more opportunities for
interaction, and a smarter use of resources. Herman Miller’s
Living Office, the company’s holistic offering of knowledge,
tools, products, and services designed to help people envision
and realize higher performing environments, provides the
framework to leverage these trends toward more purposeful
and varied settings. The company’s research also reveals
that companies that have developed Living Offices are seeing
measurable results, with greater efficiency, productivity,
and innovation. Herman Miller has applied these findings
to product development, and the resulting introductions
at NeoCon 2016 offer versatility and support for a range of
activities across a workplace landscape.
Twenty months ago, Herman Miller researchers set out
to gather meaningful data about how workplace design
is evolving. As every organization implements agile and
collaborative work practices in their own unique way, typical
benchmarking units such as square feet per workstation or
workstations per person would not be useful to customers
or design professionals. To take an informative snapshot of
changing office metrics, Herman Miller researchers analyzed
the workplace landscapes of 120 progressive organizations