Pantone’s Color of the Year was announced a couple of weeks ago — prematurely, apparently. Monaco Blue was merely the top color for Spring 2013. Or perhaps Pantone is responding to the tepid reaction to Monaco Blue as the Color of the Year. A lot of the journalists who wrote about Monaco Blue for Color … Read more
A new industry report says that office furniture manufacturing in the U.S. is set to improve slightly in the coming years. Times have been hard for this segment of the manufacturing industry. They’ve faced a lot of challenges: the rising price of steel floods of imports from China increases in remote working increased concern about … Read more
At the end of last year, the International Facility Management Association asked members for some predictions about 2012. A total of 57% were re-using furniture or supplies or planned to do so as part of sustainability efforts — only 34% had no plans to try this. In another study by the same organization, 92% of … Read more
One of the newest trends in energy needs management is mapping energy use in workspaces. EthoSource is involved in many green initiatives (read about one of our LEED partnerships), since re-using furniture has a much smaller carbon footprint than buying new office furniture. We also make a point of sustainability in our own company. Naturally, … Read more
We’ve been enjoying articles by designers showing hyper-cool office spaces. Like clothes on runways, though, sometimes the coolness comes at a price. First and foremost, offices need to work. You spend eight hours or more in your office, and not more than 20 or 30 minutes of that time can be spent basking in the … Read more
There are many big events in the life of a company that include having to deal with furniture. Your company may be growing, moving, downsizing, closing, or just rebranding. You have big decisions to make, stressful conversations to hold, and changes to make that can affect the lives of people you care about — and … Read more
Is talk about fiscal cliffs making you hesitant about plunging in and buying office furniture? If so, you may be thinking of renting. After all, people still have to sit somewhere and put their computers on something, so putting off buying office furniture won’t work in the long run. Renting office furniture might work in … Read more
A recent survey found that 86% of office workers describe their office furniture as uncomfortable. 86%. That means that when you walk into an office containing 10 people, there’s only one who isn’t experiencing some discomfort. Is it any wonder offices are sometimes stressful? The same study reported that nearly a third of the workers … Read more
(There was some confusion about the Color of the Year for 2013. While Monaco Blue was crowned Color the Year early in December 2012 by many news sources, it was dethroned a couple of weeks later by Emerald. We expect blue to continue to be a popular office choice.) General color forecasts have narrowed down … Read more
Cubicles have an image problem. In the minds of many workers, cubicles are strongly associated with boredom, lack of creativity, and lack of personality. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Herman Miller company — the same Herman Miller company that makes the Ethospace cubicles EthoSource refurbishes and sells today — came up with … Read more