The Office Furniture Super Bowl
Earlier this summer, Bloomberg’s Matt Boyle went to Chicago for NeoCon, the annual gathering of office-furniture makers, dealers, architects and building managers. If you’ve never been before — and he hadn’t — it’s quite overwhelming, with more than 50,000 people coursing through hundreds of showrooms and booths at the city’s landmark Merchandise Mart.?
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From chairs to cubicles to ceiling tiles, more than 400 vendors showcased their wares.
Once he got his bearings, he tried to figure out how the makers of office furniture were responding to the tectonic shifts happening in the world of work. And he found that office furniture made for the future of work is finally here.?
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