IN THIS ISSUE:  HNI grows earnings in Q2 as residential, office furnishings show strength / ABI June 2025: Architecture firm billings remain soft, while inquiries increase / German office furniture maker enters preliminary insolvency / Italian luxury furniture sector braces for heavy toll as US tariffs loom / Office Value Plunge Opens Door For New Conversion Play: Self-Storage / Mapped: The Most Expensive U.S. Cities For Commercial Construction / Return to Office Momentum Will Lift Broader CRE Market / Subtle Luxury, Elevated Design: Davis Unveils New Showroom at THE MART / 33% Of U.S. Office Loans Near Maturity, Threatening Commercial Real Estate Market Stability / NYC Law Firms Are Outgrowing Their Offices / The office isn’t just a space anymore. It’s a strategy to attract talent / Better offices for all as occupiers shift focus away from cost cutting / Return-to-office mandates won’t keep workers in their cubicles – but a lavish workspace can / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE:  Increased Office Visits Point to Meaningful RTO Progress / Beyond The 'AI Arms Merchants': How The Tech Is Really Changing Office Leasing / Tenant Demand Grows Despite Muted Office Leasing in Major Markets / Recovery Continues For Boston's Office Market, While Lab Market Pain Worsens / Manhattan CRE Sales Market Stalls As Buyers 'Keep The Pencil In Their Hand' / Miami Office Market Takes Step Back As Demand Wanes / Myrtle Beach furniture supplier engaged in fraud to underpay customs duties, DOJ alleges / 'It’s about giving people control over their environment to make them feel safe, calm, and focused / Hospitality in the Workplace – Inspired by the Comfort of Today’s Lifestyle / Burned Out And Logged On: How Can We Fix The Well-being Crisis In The Future of Work? / Summer Fridays Aren’t A Dead Perk — They’re A Blueprint For The Four-Day Workweek / Majority Of Fortune 100 Now Require Full-Time Office Return, New JLL Report Reveals / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE:  MillerKnoll to close Muskegon plant, affecting 250 workers / Stinson Acquires Arc-Com / Howard Miller Announces Plans to Wind Down Operations / Trump says U.S. to impose 30% tariffs on E.U., Mexico next month / US furniture industry faces uncertainty as orders decline and confidence drops / KI celebrates 30 years with opening of new London showroom / Nowy Styl strengthens international presence with visionary showroom expansion / Furniture giants fall as closures and liquidations sweep US market / Office CMBS Delinquencies Reach Record High in June / Law Firms in Office-Leasing Mode as Broader Sector Remains Muted / U.S. Office Sales Jump Nearly 70% As Investors Focus On Trophy Assets / Debunking 3 Myths About Generational Differences in the Workplace / The Indoor Default: Why We Stopped Working Outside – And How to Start Again / Is A 4-Day Workweek The Inevitable Future Of Work? / Midwest Cities Dominate As Best U.S. Places For Work-Life Balance In 2025 / Luxurious Champagne Metals are the Newest from Chemetal / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE:  American Companies Hit the Brakes on Hiring / Historic loss signals turning point for Carl Hansen & Søn / Moody's: U.S. Office Vacancy Hits Another Record High / CRE Shows First Signs of Stress From Tariff Uncertainty / American furniture makers hold firm in a shifting market / Managed Offices Set For Rapid Expansion Say 92% Of Real Estate Experts / CRE Prices Slip In May, With High-Quality Assets Shedding Value Fastest / Study: Online shopping in biggest slowdown in years as tariffs disrupt purchasing / Furniture Design Case Study: Making the Table for the G7 Summit / Structured Hybrid’s Rise and the Future of Office Space / Working from home means official government stats are too flawed for economic forecasting / Microsoft’s New Vocabulary Is Rewriting The Future Of Work / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: Hit by Tariffs, U.S., MillerKnoll Swings to Net Loss in Fiscal 2025 / Steelcase sees strong Q1 revenue, income gains on corporate demand / DIRTT Announces Results of Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders / POSH Launches a New Chapter as the First MillerKnoll Authorized Dealer in Hong Kong / Ware Malcomb Announces CBRE’s U.S. Design Collective Team Will Join Firm / Office Tenants Shift Focus from Downsizing to Strategic Growth / The Office Market Isn’t Bouncing Back Equally / AI Tenants Fuel Bay Area’s Office Market Rebound / Cost Continues to Drive Office Decisions, But a People-Focused Shift is Emerging / 'Ain't No Heaven Till '27': Why Office Development Could Come Back Sooner Than Expected / Evolving Workplace Design: Insights from Unconventional Sectors / Polywork Is The New Normal As Report Finds Most Workers Believe Job Stability Is A Myth/ and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: ABI May 2025: Despite persistent softness, fewer firms report declining billings / Humanscale becomes first in industry to bring die-casting in-house / Ed Pedrick Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Dauphin Americas / Global Furniture Group Announces Move from THE MART to Fulton Market in 2026 / A new dawn for Fritz Hansen under the leadership of the creative director / Flexible Workspace Demand In U.S. And Canada Up 19% / Kristina Dam Studio leaves Copenhagen partner and shifts focus to the contract market / Office Glut Is Finally Shrinking Amid Conversions and Falling Values / Office-to-Hotel Conversions: Resilient Opportunities for Downtown Districts / MillerKnoll balances "the iconic and the unexpected" at archive in Michigan / Remote Workers Eat Better, Stress Less, And Get More Done, Four-Year Study Proves / 92% Of Employees Are Job Hunting During Work Hours / Microsoft research lays bare the rise of the ‘infinite workday’ / The 39 definitive rules of office fashion / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: Vitra Faces Decline amid Challenging Market Conditions / DIRTT Announces Approval to Trade on the OTCQX / Office Recovery Plateaus as Hybrid Work Proves Difficult to Change / Demand for Prime Office Space Sets New York Apart from Other Cities / Phillips Workplace Interiors acquired / The Cubicle Died For This? Designing Offices That Earn The Commute / Deloitte Expands Employee Wellness Perks To Include…Lego Sets? / Engaged at Work, But at What Cost to Overall Well-being? / How these hot pink chairs became a symbol of the L.A. protests / One Year Postbankruptcy, WeWork Is Profitable, Mature And Growing Again / Office Absorption Rises for Fourth Straight Quarter / Office Space Requirements Tumble in April as Markets React to Tariff Uncertainty / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: Bringing Herman Miller & Knoll Archival Collections Together for the First Time / AT WORK COLLABORATIVE: Now an Employee-Owned Company / Rimowa and Vitra collaborate on aluminium stool and toolbox / Landscape Forms Announces New Chief Executive Officer & President / Virco Reports $700,000 First Quarter Profit as Demand for School Furniture Slows / B&B Italia Group opens its flagship store in Boston’s Back Bay / Bold+ Reimagines the Future of Workplace Furniture with New Ownership, Customization Studio and Global Partnerships / The Office Of The Future Has No Boss — Just Gig Workers With A Day Pass / The Future of Work Is Human: Designing for Culture and Experience / Manhattan Office Rents See Biggest Monthly Drop in Nearly Three Years / Office Conversions and Demolitions Expected To Outpace Deliveries This Year / What the Workplace Can Learn from The White Lotus / From Place To Platform: How Work Location Became A Service / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: NeoCon 2025 Spotlights the Future of Commercial Design / ABI April 2025: Billings continue to decline at architecture firms / Second week of June officially declared "Chicago Design Week" / AI Companies on Track to Lease 2.7M Square Feet Annually in San Francisco / A Panel Calls the Government Office Auction Process ‘Grossly Inadequate’ / 515K SF Houston Office And Showroom Fending Off Foreclosure Attempt / Big Law Firms Seeking New Space Could Revive D.C. Office Development / Workplace Occupancy Stuck At 40%, Companies Plan To Offload 30M Sq. Ft. By 2030 / Younger people increasingly willing to give up remote work for secure work, study suggests / The amenity trap: why more isn’t always better / Inside Margot Robbie’s New LuckyChap Office, Where Work Feels Like Home / From Boomers to Zoomers: How Office Design is Adapting for a Multigenerational Workplace / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: HPFi® Price Increase / CBD Offices Face Prolonged Challenges / Trump’s 50% E.U. Tariff Threat Could Cause Economic Damage Beyond Europe / Law Firms Drive Leasing Boom with Record-High Activity in Early 2025 / Delays, Cancellations Of Construction Projects Becoming More Common / Investors And Lenders Want Office Again / Office Market Pain Persists Despite Manhattan’s Glow-Up / NYC's Already-Sluggish Life Sciences Market Hit By Federal Funding Cuts / Federal Office Space Shrinks Marginally as Rent Commitments Rise / It’s Time to Kill the Casual Workplace / 79% Of Workers Want To Leave Corporate Jobs To Start Their Own Business  / What It Costs to Build Offices That Win Employees Back / From Place To Platform: How Work Location Became A Service / A Surprising Reason To Feel Good About Returning To The Office / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: Vitra unveils Manhattan showroom in "industrial" New York loft / What Pennsylvania factory workers at PS Furniture say about Trump’s tariffs now / Office Recovery: A Post-Pandemic Patchwork / The New Workplace Experiences That People Crave / JLL Sees Office Leasing Surge as Market Recovery Gains Momentum / U.S. Corporate Relocations Quintuple / The Largest Hotel Companies Are Preparing For A U.S. Downturn / DOGE Has Walked Back More Than Half Of Its Claimed Real Estate Cuts / Little evidence that hybrid working has encouraged high skilled people to relocate to cheaper regions / It’s Time for the Traditional Conference Room to Make Way for New Spaces / The latest news about NeoCon, DesignDays and Clerkenwell Design Week / and much more…

IN THIS ISSUE: HNI Delivers Strong Start to 2025 / DIRTT Revenue inches up 1% / Furniture startup Branch launches SF Retail Store / Manhattan Office Leasing Shows Signs of Cooling After Strong Start to 2025 / Class A Office Values Down 40% Since 2020—Yet Investors Eye a Market Bottom / Amazon Is Gobbling Up Midtown / Standard Reporting Underestimates the Value of Office Furniture Reuse / How Summer FOMO Is Shaping the Canadian Workplace / Is the Furniture Industry Failing to Connect the Dots? / HSBC faces desks shortage after ordering staff back to the office / AI At The Front Desk: Are Bots The Future Of Reception In Coworking Spaces? / Maximizing Magnets and Minimizing Barriers to Improve Office Life / and much more…