Adam Grant, author and host of TED’s WorkLife podcast, shares what he’s learning about how to make work not suck.” Teaser alert: “If you want to build trust, you actually want to de-fun. Instead of doing something simple and lighthearted, you actually work with a group of people to solve hard problems that matter.”

Teams are made up of a bunch of “I”s — individuals with unique personalities, skills and needs. On the field or in the office, a team performs at its best when the needs of the group are supported while also addressing the needs of each member. We need to think about the “me within the we.”

Today so much of our work happens away from the primary workstation. The casual atmosphere draws us in, but often these spaces do not support our work.

Steelcase and West Elm come together to create hardworking, inviting new solutions for the office with West Elm Work Greenpoint.

How the Steelcase Flex Collection supports the day-to-day activities of a creative team.

How the Steelcase Flex Collection keeps up with a truly agile digital team.

Durability, sustainability, ergonomics, choice and availability used to be differentiators. Now they’re expected norms. To create furnishings that deliver something more, Coalesse designers rely on character and craft to improve your experience in ways you didn’t even know you were looking for.

Consider flipping the script—instead of people moving when they change their mode of work, what if they could stay with their team and move their furniture?

Inside a Steelcase experiment with an internal gig economy.

A digital double, tiny rockets, subvocal speech—TED speakers shared new approaches and big ideas about the future of humanity.

How one financial organization caught everyone’s attention with a redesigned conference space.

A case study on how the Steelcase Workplace Advisor Study uses real-time data to drive change at Steelcase´s Learning and Innovation Center in Munich.