There aren't many things I can say I'm genuinely thankful to COVID for, but the introduction of a hybrid work week is certainly one of them. Five years on from the lockdown (hard to believe, I know), ...

Good lighting design can improve worker efficiency and reduce a building owner’s operating costs. Years ago, calculating the number of lighting fixtures for an indoor office space only required you to ...

The Lighting Controls Association has published a basic guide on applying lighting controls to open office spaces. Hoteling, hot-desking and other open office design trends are increasing demands for ...

Lighting — the good, the bad, and the ugly — can significantly impact employees’ mental health, and the amount and type of lighting in your office can dramatically alter their performance. In fact, ...

Light is an invisible influencer on productivity. Organizations and leaders invest heavily in talent, technology, and training. Yet, they often overlook the environments where they expect high ...

Soho, part of the Kathy Ireland Home Collection by Pacific Coast Lighting, has an off-white cylindrical tapered shade that would provide ambient lighting in a home office setting. After months of ...

Dimmers and control panels, task and accent lighting. The intricacies of lighting schemes may not seem as exciting as selecting that beautiful wall color from a peacock’s fan of paint chips, or match ...

When the design team at Jensen Architects first considered the idea of using dichroic glass in the renovation of a 1980sera office building for a technology company, principal Dean Orr was skeptical. ...

“Two brains are better than one,” goes the old saying. And with good reason. As the social beings that we are, humans thrive through interpersonal interactions and the dynamic exchange of ideas. It is ...

Lamps in all shapes and sizes can be used to recast the feel of a room, brighten dark corners and illuminate your treasures. By Tim McKeough Lighting can have a dramatic effect on the way a room looks ...

Walk into a room bathed in cozy, inviting light and you’ll feel instantly at ease. Walk into the same room buzzing with harsh fluorescents, and your teeth may start to grind. In 2014, a Journal of ...