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Workplace Real Estate: Connected + Hardworking

Smart and connected work environments perform harder for organizations compared to traditional workspaces. Walls are no longer just space dividers. They can embed technology, lighting and other work tools to ramp up collaboration and leverage more vertical real estate.

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NBS Unleashes our 2017 Pet Campaign!

After a long day at work, a pet is always there to greet you. They are our loyal companions, stress relievers and entertainers. This year we are dedicating time, resources and love to the animals in our lives and community.

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Spark New Learning – Apply Today to Transform Your Classroom

Are you an educator or know someone who is? For the third year, Steelcase Education is awarding up to fifteen schools grants valued at $65,000 (grades 6 – 12, colleges and universities) to create active learning centers. Steelcase has partnered with educators to rethink today’s classrooms to make them more engaging, flexible and innovative.

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A Reason To Clean: Winter’s Snow + Salt Is Here

Winter is in full swing and that means ice melts or “de-icers” are being deposited on roads and sidewalks. These melting compounds can wreak havoc on your carpet and other flooring in vestibules and entryways. Over time, soils can build up and get trapped.

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4.0 Volunteer Challenge Success: 825 Hours!

Wow! Our team members across all five locations went above and beyond, donating and volunteering their time to the causes and organizations that speak to them. From their efforts, NBS surpassed our initial 700-hour goal with a new total of 825 hours, and that number is still growing!

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NBS Live Work Balance

Practicing Mindfulness

Being mindful isn’t easy unless you have goals and plans set in place. Here are some daily activities I tried and could help you in setting up a mindfulness routine.

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NBS Volunteer Community Outreach Habitat for Humanity

4.0 Volunteer Challenge Update: 723 hours

We did it! We reached our 4.0 Volunteer Challenge company goal of volunteering 700 hours in 2016! September and October were big months for us and many of our team members took part in group organized volunteer activities. In September, our Audiovisual Solutions team donated their time to the Troy Family Daze community event.

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NBS Block Party

Welcome to the NBS Block Party!

Don’t you love a neighborhood block party? It’s a time when your community can come together to connect and socialize. We have taken this concept and turned it into our own weekly gathering! Our Troy team members are actually organized into “neighborhoods” depending on the market they support.

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Privacy: Thinking Beyond Four Walls

In a professional world where “open plan”, “collaboration” and “flexible worker” are increasingly being talked about, people cannot forget the need for privacy. As many of us are becoming more mobile, in and out of meetings all day, being disrupted by a variety of things, we strive for private time to get work done.

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[re]ocon 2016: Can You Dig It?

Last week, our showroom was bustling with over 250 guests experiencing the latest in commercial furniture, floorcovering, textiles, AV and construction products. Our annual [re]ocon event brings the best of NeoCon and InfoComm to our clients and industry peers. The all-day event incorporated our 40th anniversary with Steelcase and featured throwback music, food and decor.

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4.0 Volunteer Challenge Update: 346 hours

We are excited to share that our team is halfway to achieving our 4.0 Challenge Volunteering goal! Across all of our locations, team members are continuing to commit their time to a variety of causes including hunger, youth, housing and community outreach.

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4.0 Volunteer Challenge- 3,606 Meals Donated!

Last Saturday, on a cool summer morning, our team members and NBS truck were ready and waiting to collect food and donations for Gleaner’s Fill the Fridge mission. We are excited to share that our Troy food drive was a success! Thank you to everyone who donated and participated.

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4.0 Volunteer Challenge- NBS Food Drive July 16th!

With summer vacation upon us, nearly 300,000 children who rely on free or reduced-fee meals from their school may be going home to an empty fridge. To support Gleaner’s fill the fridge campaign, NBS will be hosting a food drive in our Troy front parking lot on Saturday, July 16th.

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5 Takeaways from Steelcase’s New Global Report

If you work in an office today, it might not come as a surprise that the office of the future is still some ways off. Steelcase embarked on an unprecedented global study, partnering with IPSOS, to see how space correlates with employee engagement, and how workers are really working all over the globe.

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The Perfect Cover Up

The best flooring ideas match durability and convenience with beautiful design. Case in point – the floating floor. Laid directly over an existing floor without any adhesive, installation requires virtually no prep work — even for minor imperfections in the old floor.

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@40 Stories- Projector Presentation

Back in the early 1980’s, myself, the owner of our Steelcase dealership at the time, and a Steelcase sales rep were all in Houston, TX for a sales presentation at the Steelcase showroom. I remember preparing the night before in the hotel room for our sales pitch to Ford Aerospace.

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Tips for a Successful Collaborative Space

Businesses today want to be more innovative and collaborative, but what does that mean and how is it achieved? Integrating technology into a collaborative workspace has become far more complex than just plugging into a projector.

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A Reason to Clean

Spring is in the air, and winter is probably still on your windows. It’s unavoidable. The weather, parking lots, roads and traffic, even coworkers, can all contribute to the soot, smudges and smears that appear on most glass surfaces.

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