Work Life

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Working remotely also can facilitate faster travel to business-critical locations like regional farms, customers, and manufacturing facilities. This approach leverages digital communication and collaboration tools. Office visits are expected at least four times per year to maintain cultural connection and alignment with the broader team.

Manufacturing

Success

AUGUST 4, 2025

Gluck Corporation, a global fashion watch manufacturer. How to Identify Potential Successors Step 1: Recognize What Roles Need to Be Filled “Leaders can anticipate and recognize which roles need to be filled by consistently reviewing both short-term and long-term objectives,” says Bobbie Weichselbaum, CEO of E.

Training

Attendance Bot

JULY 18, 2025

It Enhances Safety in High-Risk Environments In manufacturing, logistics, driving, and healthcare settings, distraction isn’t just a productivity issue—it’s a safety one. Some employees might scroll Instagram freely while others are discouraged from checking a quick message.

Security

The Receptionist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In meetings with packaging consultants, engineers, and manufacturers, I learned that the end of life of our packaging is secondary to its durability. This is a unique challenge for us because the product we ship is large, heavy, and fragile. Returns of electronics damaged in transit have a devastating environmental impact.

Logistics

Workplace Insight

JUNE 17, 2025

Crafted and manufactured in West Yorkshire, hilo.work empowers users to adjust screen height to suit focus, privacy, or collaboration, seamlessly adapting acoustic environments in real time. AgileAcoustics welcomes collaboration with manufacturers and partners to expand global reach and adapt the system for evolving workplace needs.

Manufacturing

McKensey

JUNE 10, 2025

CPG organizations could see the greatest impact from technology, given the potential for gen AI and other automation tools to optimize these companies’ manufacturing and supply chains. Manufacturing jobs are often concentrated in fewer, larger locations, such as plants or warehouses, and do not have any customer-facing exposure.

Retail

Workplace Insight

AUGUST 5, 2025

The data suggests that there are significant differences in sectoral attitudes towards hybrid working, with manufacturers (62 percent) and B2C (61 percent) services most likely to be expecting all working days to be on-site in the next year. The majority (94 percent) of firms who took part were SMEs with fewer than 250 employees.

Manufacturing

Work Life

AUGUST 5, 2025

“It might be tempting to leave it ‘ad hoc’ or worry it will seem forced or manufactured,” Lovelock adds, “but actually people usually find a regular cadence around gratitude and appreciation very valuable.” ” Worried you might struggle to find wins?

Leadership

Workplace Insight

MARCH 4, 2025

The post Welsh furniture manufacturer Orangebox have launched Be My Guest, a refuge of calm for the modern workplace. appeared first on Workplace Insight.

Manufacturing

Office Snapshots

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Yamaha, one of the world’s leading companies in the manufacturing and distribution of musical instruments, selected Vacons to express their brand concept “Make Waves.” Upon entering the office, visitors are immediately welcomed by the brand message “Make Waves,” reflecting Yamaha’s core identity.

Manufacturing

Office Snapshots

JUNE 19, 2025

It was originally used to produce paper and burlap bags and later for manufacturing cat and dog food bags. Cooper Carry designed the interior fit-out of the old Werthan Mill Warehouse into speculative office suites as part of a redevelopment project in Nashville’s historic Germantown neighborhood. The warehouse has a rich 100-year history.

Real Estate

Workplace Insight

AUGUST 4, 2025

The merger underscores a shift in the office furniture landscape as manufacturers respond to changing patterns in workplace demand, particularly the return to physical offices. The Steelcase brand will remain intact, and two independent Steelcase board members will join the expanded HNI board.

Manufacturing

Success

MARCH 4, 2025

If you are a manufacturing business, you [or] your suppliers, by reducing water, can reduce energy, emissions [and] bad chemistry and help improve the lives of people and communities. Focus on how to reduce your use of natural resources. Following water, for example, is a great place to lean into, advises Kenniston. Follow the water!

Problem-Solving

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 30, 2024

However, the usual survey methods often overlook employees without regular access to computers or email, like the ones in sectors like manufacturing, logistics, and retail.

Retail

Attendance Bot

JULY 23, 2025

Industries like manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and public safety benefit from Shiftboard’s ability to enforce scheduling rules, assign shifts by role or qualification, and provide operational visibility across locations.

Payroll

Workplace Insight

AUGUST 4, 2025

Around one third of employers in retail, hospitality and leisure, and more than a quarter in engineering, manufacturing, and logistics, anticipate challenges in accommodating the changes. This shift is expected to be particularly difficult in sectors where remote or hybrid working is less feasible. Other reforms are also prompting concern.

Flexibility

All Work

MARCH 4, 2025

So we were at this risk that we’re not just going back to 2020, we’re going back to 1990 or 1980 and applying a sort of industrial era or a manufacturing sensibility in the physical work environment. We’re going back even further in time than we think we are with some of these policies.

Real Estate

Work Life

JULY 8, 2025

Manufacturing staff or clerical personnel can have valuable innovative ideas, but they will often only share them with their managers if they think they will be supported. For example, an assembly line worker might have ideas for how to improve the manufacturing process in ways the engineers supporting that same line don’t have.

Manufacturing

Success

MAY 8, 2025

The ongoing will-they-wont-they dynamic is causing uncertainty among manufacturers, dealerships and consumers. In a statement, Jessica Caldwell, head of insights at Edmunds, says, The looming threat of tariffs still hangs over the automotive industry like a dark storm cloud.

Purchasing

Great Place to Work

JUNE 30, 2025

By training all employees — from agriculture to manufacturing to business roles — in continuous improvement practices, the company empowered them to identify and implement changes directly. A more direct option was sharing a senior leader’s phone number with employees by posting it all around the manufacturing building.

Communication

McKensey

JULY 15, 2025

A robust contracting and capital procurement strategy is critical to overcoming challenges in constructing key infrastructure such as data centers and semiconductor manufacturing plants.

Manufacturing

Workplace Insight

APRIL 28, 2025

Whether you are an architect, designer, workplace strategist, or product manufacturer, the event offers an unparalleled opportunity to discover the latest innovations, connect with peers, and gain fresh inspiration for the workplaces of the future.

Mailing

Success

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Evans recalled one career professional, a mid-level business development manager for a small manufacturing company, who was offered the option of continuing to work fully remote or to transition to a hybrid role and spend three days a week in the office. Evans, a workplace expert, bestselling author and TEDx curator in San Diego.

Promotion

Workplace Insight

JANUARY 29, 2025

Membership: Members of the Furniture Makers’ Company are typically professionals in the furniture industry, such as furniture designers, manufacturers, retailers, and other associated trades. The Company also funds awards and educational initiatives, such as the Furniture Makers Company Scholarship and The Design Guild Mark.

Manufacturing

Work Life

APRIL 4, 2025

The Trump administration has argued that while tariffs may drive up prices, they will also help fuel job creation stateside, particularly across manufacturing. Others have argued that manufacturing employment actually dropped overall, despite modest gains in job creation across the steel industry.

Manufacturing

Office Snapshots

JANUARY 10, 2025

Recycling Equipment Manufacturer : Machinex Experiential Design Company : Holt Experiential Photography : Cory Klein The post Rumpke Waste and Recycling Material Recovery Facility and Offices – Columbus appeared first on Office Snapshots. Design : Moody Nolan Contractor : Elford, Inc.

Equipment

Workplace Insight

JULY 8, 2025

This is more than the space acquired by manufacturing (238,822 sq. New research from JLL suggests that financial services firms have accounted for more than 440,000 square feet of inward investment in office space across Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh and Birmingham over the last decade. ft) and service industries (224,813 sq.

Real Estate

Work Life

MARCH 13, 2025

They included a subsector, industries, and specific investment strategies: Prompt 1: Please list search firms that recruit executives for companies in NAICS code 3254 (Pharmaceutical & Medicine Manufacturing). ChatGPT provided a list of 25 firms, although I had to re-prompt it with Any more? several times.

Pharmaceutical

Workplace Insight

MARCH 12, 2025

While this may be perfect in terms of getting visiting specifiers along to the show, it does create problems when it comes to persuading manufacturers to part with their valuable marketing budgets in order to decamp from showrooms literally one mile away.

Manufacturing

Success

MARCH 29, 2025

As a VP of operations for a manufacturing company in 2007the beginning of the Great Recessionshe was tasked with laying off over 120 employees who, then, had to train their replacements due to a factory moving offshore.

Consulting

Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The British aren’t coming There was only a handful of British office exhibitors at this year’s show and arguably only one manufacturer of traditional office furniture. Keeping the British end up were a number of foreign owned firms with significant market presence including those like Flokk, who have manufacturing operations in the UK.

Manufacturing

Office Snapshots

MARCH 24, 2025

Southwire is a manufacturing company, headquartered in Carrollton, GA. They wanted to create an Atlanta hub near the Braves Stadium to attract and retain new talent and create a flexible work environment for employees located in Atlanta and provide less of a commute.

Problem-Solving

Work Life

JUNE 27, 2025

New Balance has done this exceptionally well, maintaining its long-term manufacturing commitments in the U.S. They know when to zoom out—building toward five-year goals—and when to zoom in, listening to customer feedback or shifting based on real-time performance indicators. billion in sales in 2023.

Leadership

Mad in America

MARCH 22, 2025

It is indeed rare to see such issues debated: is this because of some censorship operated by medical journals, meeting organizers, and certain pharmaceutical manufacturers? He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility. Fava was now like the little boy who whispered that the king has no clothes.

Pharmaceutical

Workplace Insight

JANUARY 10, 2025

Manufacturers and suppliers of furniture, flooring, new materials, fittings and finishes as well as reuse operations and IT services will also host discussion tables.

Manufacturing

Office Snapshots

MAY 12, 2025

Located in the citys burgeoning manufacturing district, this new workplace reflects the companys energetic, inclusive culture while heralding a tech-centered brand. Dynamic and strategic, Moroch is a Dallas-based marketing firm, noted for its tech-forward approach to developing media-savvy, stakeholder-informed solutions.

Manufacturing

Work Life

JULY 27, 2025

In 2017, Frazier resigned from President Trump’s American Manufacturing Council following the administration’s tepid response to the white supremacist marches and ensuing violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ken Frazier (former CEO, Merck). Frazier’s action was seen as deeply principled, and Merck’s shareholder value was not damaged.

Influencing