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Allison Arieff On The Future Of The Office

3:52 pm in green design, new york times, office design, workspace by TreeHugger

my office today photo My office today I originally titled this post "Allison Arieff On The Office of the Future" but really, that's wrong, it is really about the future of the office. She picks up on a theme that I covered in Meet The New Boss's Office, Same As The Old Boss's Office- that so many of the articles covering the "new office" are "disconcertingly out of touch."...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Number of Teleworkers In America Takes Dramatic Dive

12:26 pm in home office, working from home, workspace by TreeHugger

teleworking from home graphic image Image Credit Telework 2011 Report, pdf here click to enlarge We're big fans of Teleworking or homeworking or whatever you want to call it; doing so keeps cars off the roads and saves a lot of energy. But even as technology gets better and the economics get stronger, surprisingly, the numbers are dropping. Joe McKendrick of Smartplanet points to the latest stud...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Spend Even More Time At Work With The Elliptical Machine Office Desk

8:46 am in home office, standing desk, workspace, wretched excess department by TreeHugger

hs-elliptical.jpg Images credit Hammacher Schlemmer Now you don't even have the excuse of getting some exercise or going to the gym as a reason to leave work; expensive tchotchke store Hammacher Schlemmer lets you bring the gym to the office with the Elliptical Machine Office Desk. We are big fans of standing desks, and have discussed treadmill desks as alternatives to sitting all d...Read the full story on TreeHugger