COVID-19 changed everything about work. And no one knows exactly what the office of tomorrow will look like—not even the storied American design brand Herman Miller, a company that has been furnishing ...

The ongoing pandemic has revealed a lot about our society and the nature of work, including the fact that lots of people can be just as productive doing a 9 to 5 from home. Office space isn’t as ...

Forty years ago, in an odd-shaped building on South State Street between Interstate 94 and the University of Michigan campus, a team of researchers and designers came up with an idea that seems simple ...

What will the office look like in a post-Covid world? It’s anyone’s guess, really, so all the more reason for one of the category experts to jump in and give their two cents. Herman Miller, the ...

As furniture goes, the cubicle doesn’t stand as tall and proud as it once did. Like many of the midlevel workers it has penned in over the years, the cubicle has endured its own form of “rightsizing,” ...

The Historical Society of Michigan, nonprofit publisher of Michigan History magazine, is partnering with MLive to share excerpts of the magazine's content six times a year, coinciding with when the ...

This week, San Francisco is entering another one of those “heatwaves” as the newspaper calls them. That’s 75 degrees, for those of you uninitiated to the reality of Bay Area micro climates. Which ...

Aug. 17, 2006 — -- Sitting in your cubicle at work, do you ever wonder sometimes just how you ended up there? Not too long ago, someone came along with a vision for a new and improved "office ...

The Action Office system was the world's first open-plan office system of reconfigurable components and a bold departure from the era's fixed assumptions of what office furniture should be. With the ...

The inventor of the office cubicle accelerates its growth story. Herman Miller has been an active force for sustainability since the 1980s, winning many awards along the way. In 2010, the company ...

IN THE 1960s Robert Propst, an inventor and artist who had patents in heart valves, livestock-tagging machines and aeroplane parts, was asked by Herman Miller, an American design company, to find ...

What do students know about the soul-sucking problems facing office workers today? More than you’d think. Michigan furniture manufacturer Herman Miller has tapped a handful of industrial-design ...