Introducing Collaborative Seating
July 27, 2009 Consumer Products, Design, Ergonomics, Steelcase News
In a world where connecting and collaborating is vital to success, the role of the workplace is to connect: people with people, people with information, people with tools they need to do their job and with the culture of their organization. The landscape of today’s workplace is changing. Footprints are shrinking while expectations are growing. People are looking for a variety of settings to choose how and where they want to collaborate. Today’s workspace needs to work harder by working smarter.
Because of this Steelcase created a whole new category of seating products designed specifically for the needs of collaboration. The cobi and i2i chairs were designed specifically to foster collaboration and were based on three key research observations that resulted in three key insights:
- Chairs should promote movement and be comfortable for long periods of time
- Adjustments should be automatic and intuitive
- Chairs should support multiple postures



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