Igniting a Sense of Startup Culture

Igniting a Sense of Startup Culture

Is it really possible to ignite—or reclaim—a sense of “startup culture” in your workplace? With focused intentionality, passionate determination and a little spunk, we believe the answer is, “Absolutely.” Here are some tips to get you started.

Connecting People + Purpose

Connecting People + Purpose

It’s a cornerstone of employee engagement, yet many organizations aren’t articulating or living their purpose consistently. Steelcase’s Applied Research + Consulting division is helping companies leverage their spaces, processes and technology to bring purpose into the daily work experience.

Think Better

Think Better

It’s fast becoming a deeply-embedded yearning of our time. In workplaces throughout the world, there’s awareness that we’re not performing to full potential and too many distractions are to blame. While the diagnosis may seem clear, most people feel helpless to do anything about it other than to keep working harder at staying focused. But neuroscience research is now shedding new light on the fundamental problem, offering decipherable clues for how to better support attention at work. By integrating the discoveries of neuroscience with their own investigations into worker behaviors and the changing nature of work, the Steelcase WorkSpace Futures team offers new insights and ideas for how workplaces can be reimagined in innovative ways to optimize brain performance.

Building Wellbeing into the Workplace

Building Wellbeing into the Workplace

Choice and control are found throughout the work environment’s furniture and tools. A chair that provides ergonomic benefits to people of various sizes and working in different postures adds to physical wellbeing.

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

Recently, the Steelcase Applied Research + Consulting team has focused on new capabilities specific to Agile. In true Agile fashion,

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

02 The Commons How do you help leaders, customers and other colleagues understand what’s on your plate now and what’s

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

As designers listened to input from the different teams, they drew inspiration from urban planning to create an environment that

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

Be Agile. Hack Your Space.

Agile is easy to understand and difficult to master. It requires long-term dedication. A changing work structure requires a shift

Fast Forward

Fast Forward

If you can imagine space as a participant on your team, you may be curious as to how that spatial

Fast Forward

Fast Forward

We’re already inundated by massive amounts of information bombarding us from seemingly every direction. And yet we will see more,

Fast Forward

Fast Forward

Freelancers already make up 35 percent of U.S. workers, according to a survey released by the Freelancers Union, based in