Category Archive For "Sustainability"
Taking an enlightened view of the environmental performance of office furniture
The term ‘greenwash’ has been around for quite a while now. The first recorded use of the term dates back to 1992 at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit and first entered the Oxford Dictionary in 1999, where it is now enshrined as ‘disinformation disseminated by an organisation so as to present an environmentally responsible …
Why activity based working is an increasingly popular workplace solution
The language we use to describe work and workplaces evolves almost as quickly as the workplace itself. And if there is one term that encapsulates cutting edge workplace design thinking in this part of the 21st Century it is Activity Based Working (ABW). As with most of these ideas there is nothing magical, or even new …
Sustainable depends on attention to detail: Sedus exemplifies the quality of Made in Germany
Sedus factory Dogern One of the most important characteristics of Sedus Stoll AG is the firm’s high level of vertical integration. On average, this accounts for half of the value added in the company’s operations. That is why all essential processes related to environmental performance take place in house and are monitored constantly. Manufacturing at …
Sedus Future Proof – solutions for the office of the future
There can’t be many issues that take up more of the time and energy of entrepreneurs than how to manage their knowledge and creative processes. While the manufacturing sector may have committed itself to automating its systems some time ago, the situation with office based work is less clear. Ground-breaking ideas such as ‘Office 4.0’ …
