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Trending Interior Renovations for a Commercial Office That Improve Wellbeing

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Trending Interior Renovations for a Commercial Office That Improve Wellbeing

We’re pleased to share this guest post written by Natalie Akins, Interior Design Editor with Innovative Building Materials. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevailing trend in commercial office design was to open up spaces to create a more inviting work atmosphere. While creativity and collaboration are undoubtedly optimized in open floor plans, the pandemic reminded everyone that, in addition to the periodic need for privacy, some measures must be taken to provide social distance and ensure employee wellness.

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Tips for Designing Inclusive Workplace Environments

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Tips for Designing Inclusive Workplace Environments

"Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It's about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really."
– InclusiveDesignPrinciples.org

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Office Design + Employee Wellness Ideas for Post-pandemic Reentry

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Office Design + Employee Wellness Ideas for Post-pandemic Reentry

While the idea of a personal work bubble might sound sci-fi surreal, the reality is that from here forward, it’s more paramount than ever for workplace design to address how people perceive and experience personal safety and wellbeing, through visual and physical cues in the work environment.

Read on for a baker’s dozen ideas for office design and employee wellness ideas for post-pandemic reentry.

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Women take center stage at co-working companies

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Women take center stage at co-working companies

Read about two new co-working businesses that recently opened in Portland, OR, including Vida Co-working which ctrl+shift+space had the opportunity to collaborate with.

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How Oregon Works: ctrl+shift+space's Allyson Strowbridge on office design's competitive edge

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How Oregon Works: ctrl+shift+space's Allyson Strowbridge on office design's competitive edge

Allyson Strowbridge is principal of ctrl+shift+space, a Portland-based workplace strategy and design firm with a client list that includes Zapproved and Technology Association of Oregon.

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Portland Technology Company Sightbox Unveils New Office Expansion

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Portland Technology Company Sightbox Unveils New Office Expansion

In response to its rapid growth, Sightbox, a Portland-based technology company that offers its members a new way to experience vision care, recently embarked on an expansion and remodel of its current office space in downtown Portland. Doubling its square-footage, two Portland workplace strategy and design firms, ctrl+shift+space and Studio 7 Design, collaborated to infuse Sightbox’s culture into the 25,000 square-foot project, while also ensuring the company operated successfully throughout construction and installation.

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PBJ Guest Column: Put Humans First When Creating Workplaces That Work

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PBJ Guest Column: Put Humans First When Creating Workplaces That Work

Human-centered employers understand that behind every great company, product, service and tool are great employees. Therefore, they work toward keeping their most valuable assets — their people — motivated, engaged and happy. While the environments in which we work are just one piece of the workplace culture conundrum, they represent a pretty large piece of the puzzle.

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DWP18 Event Spotlight: Paradigm Shifts in the Human-Centric Workplace

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DWP18 Event Spotlight: Paradigm Shifts in the Human-Centric Workplace

Pollinator, an experiential workplace pop-up focusing on human-centered design in work environments, is popping up with its next iteration of a living lab. 

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