Reimagining the Modern Workspace: How Offices by Ace Can Help You Redesign for the Future As businesses continue to navigate the evolving landscape of work, the importance of a well-designed office environment has never been clearer. With many companies shifting back to in-person or hybrid models, there’s a growing need to create spaces that foster collaboration, creativity, and well-being. This transition is not just about...
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Room to Huddle Many large corporations have taken an open concept approach to their space which has eliminated many of the smaller accommodations for meetings that benefit from more intimate space, a quiet atmosphere, the need for privacy, and/or audio-visual equipment that works in a more confined area. Typically seating three to eight persons, fewer than a football team, the term “huddle room” has nevertheless...
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I Want to Be Alone… Although she really said something a little different than this, these words are often attributed to the actress Greta Garbo. And according to a study quoted in the September 2018 issue of Southwest, The Magazine (p. 33), forty-three (43) percent of the 2100 full-time employees who were polled by CommercialCafe indicated they would prefer a private office workplace. This is...
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What does it mean to market? What is the purpose of marketing? Who is the marketer? Some may use the terms marketing and selling synonymously. However, marketing doesn’t mean to sell products or services to one customer but to sell the vision and the appearance of the company to the general public as a whole. The purpose of marketing is to show the...
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If you were ever a child – and who among us was not? – you were probably asked by someone, perhaps a teacher or a family member, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” I know I was asked this question, and I know I probably asked my own children this question too. Do you remember your answer(s)? What did you want...
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Many of us spend a lot of our day sitting at a desk. If that’s true for you, or maybe has been true for you in the past, I wonder what you were doing while you were sitting? Were you writing? Were you gazing at a computer monitor? Were you “getting organized?” Were you talking on the phone? Were you daydreaming? Whatever you were doing...
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“How did you do in the storm?” That question has been asked by us and of us with each and every customer who has walked into Ace Office Furniture. Only a few – mainly because who has time to shop for office furniture when you’ve had three feet of water in your business – have said, “We took a real hit. I don’t know if...
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Jerry Maguire. I’m not sure why, but today I was thinking about the movie “Jerry Maguire” and some of the famous (or maybe infamous) quotes from Jerry, the sports agent, that have become part of our popular culture. “Show me the money!” for example. “Help me help you.” “You’re a paycheck player – you play with your head and not your heart.” “I love you....
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“Thoroughly Contemporary Millie.” That movie title just doesn’t roll off the tongue, does it? And maybe that’s because using the word “contemporary” as a substitute for “modern” isn’t always correct. In terms of design, contemporary refers to a look that is new, fresh, timely, and constantly changing. By contrast, the word “modern” refers to a period of time, that period of time which the movie,...
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