It’s time to make New Year’s Resolutions, and we can probably guess what’s on your list. The top resolutions in the U.S. for many years now have been to get organized and to improve health by giving up smoking, losing weight, or getting more exercise. Saving money, getting out of debt, and spending more time … Read more
We read a recent report on the factors considered in making a business valuation. At the bottom of the list: the physical assets of a company. In other words, expensive office furniture and equipment doesn’t increase the value of your company. This may seem surprising. After all, you paid for all those cubicles, desks, and … Read more
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