How does coworking work? What should you look out for when choosing your coworking space? And what’s a typical working day like? No one can answer these questions better than the experienced coworkers themselves. We asked management consultant Tobias Berger about his experiences. Here are his...
What minimum requirements should coworking spaces fulfil? Who is suited to coworking? We did some research. The answers provided by the Hamburger Ding offer some exciting insights from behind the scenes of the coworking world; revealing the prevalent trends there, and which concepts work well....
Yes, the digital nomads speak their own language. But what do these things actually mean - flexi desk or Open Space? Let’s just take a look at the key terms from the world of coworking. If you’re familiar with them, you’ll quickly gain a better...
Lagom, hygge, sisu – and all the rest of them, the paths to happiness. Do you follow one of these lifestyle concepts and decorate your home accordingly, or are you more rational when it comes to making decisions? Regardless which type of person you are,...
Need a motivation boost? In the isolation of the home office environment, it’s likely that you’ll hit a low point from time to time: no passing chats, no office gossip, no spontaneous encouragement across the desk to help you think positively. Our motivation trainer knows how...
Creating solutions for New Work whilst keeping an eye on the environment – that’s...
It’s an exciting subject, a science in its own right, and also something we’re focused on here at Klöber: the different effects of colour and materials. Melanie Hövermann from raumprobe has a diploma in design – and she doesn’t just look at individual items of...
No sooner were most office workers temporarily confined to their home offices than people began an impassioned discussion about which tricks they could use to make their home working experience as effective as possible. Here at Klöber we have also been looking at this...
Time for some frank talk! Now that working from home (or mobile working) is mandatory, let’s just get one thing straight: working on the sofa, bed or floor is not okay. We’re still seeing pictures in the media from time to time showing precisely that....
At the moment, many organisations have set up the infrastructure for employees to work from home. Home offices and mobile working are increasingly becoming the focus of public discussion. This can be viewed as a positive indicator for mobile workers – after all personal health...
One thing is certain – the workplace has been in a state of change for quite some time. Futurologists have coined the term “New Work” to describe the direction this journey’s taking. One main goal of the megatrend: creating a balance between life and work....
Our favourite design Connex2 with mesh back has also been a hit with the international jury evaluating all the entries for the Red Dot Award 2020. After the Connex2 swivel chair with upholstered backrest chalked up two high-profile prizes back in 2018 – the German...
We’re proud to be kicking off a new chapter in terms of design: May we introduce… the little WOOOM a new addition to our popular WOOOM family. Simple and elegant in design yet with highly versatile configuration potential, it makes a good impression in any room. Little WOOOM,...
No more gifts. We’re making donations instead! Our employees were enthusiastic about providing us with suggestions for our 2019 Christmas donation last year. This time, children and refugees have been delighted to receive a total of more than 2000 euros. Hendrik Kreft, our Head of New Business...
Here at Klöber we’re team players – both amongst colleagues or in terms of the way we interact with our partners and suppliers. We’re convinced it’s the best way to create ideas and products. In our new series we’ll introduce you to a few of...
In this digital age we face 3 equally important challenges: Making decisions that generate value Not being distracted Using energy efficiently How we handle time as a resource is becoming an important success factor, both in our private lives and at work. Time management is a...
Both at work and in private life: personal fulfilment is becoming increasingly important. How do you want to live? What does that mean for tomorrow’s office? KLÖBER IS BRINGING A BREATH OF FRESH AIR and individuality TO THE WORLD OF OFFICE SEATING In our last article we gave you...
No more frustration at work! We reveal how to bring more joy to your workplace, increasing efficiency and creativity as a result. Love, passion, fear or rage: emotions have a crucial bearing on our lives – not just in private but at work as well. Frustration,...
We trying out something new. With solutions that reinvent how we sit in the office in a refreshingly different way. Our motivation is to look closely and listen to what needs society has. Openness towards people, the environment and Nature is the driving force behind the...
Coworking in the Hamburger Ding is much more than just working together. At the west end of the Reeperbahn, Home United – the developer and operator of this project – has created what they term “the coolest co-working space in the Kiez district”. Around 300...
A sustainable lifestyle makes it possible to conserve valuable resources – an excellent way of protecting our environment. There are also clever ways to ensure environmentally conscious working in the office. The following five tips offer you a way to make your office routine more...
Living Coral, Pantone’s colour of the year for 2019, looks great, with a freshness and intensity that transport us into the vibrant world of nature. Coral red satisfies the yearning felt by many people for natural colours in our digitalised world – or, in the...
We’ve already told you in the past how important the external factors in the workplace are, for example in our blog about room climate. Tidiness plays a key role too, because a tidy office encourages concentration and productivity. As is so often the case: less...
Our series has already guided you through seven stages in the life of an office chair – from product management via the development workshop to the sewing room. The eighth and final part of our office chair series explains how the individual parts produced during...
We’ve come up with something rather special to celebrate Christmas this year: instead of gifts for our customers, Klöber is donating 1000 euros each to two charitable organisations in the Lake Constance region to bring a touch of Christmas magic into the lives of children. ...
The most important exhibition in our industry was held last month: Orgatec – the flagship international trade fair for the modern workplace. In my Orgatec review I’ll give you the low-down on which of our seating highlights were available to test out, and let you...
ORGATEC 2018, the leading trade fair for equipping and furnishing offices and commercial projects, is just about to start. Once again there will be plenty of innovative and amazing ideas on furniture and office-related matters. Everything will focus on the modern workplace. This year's ORGATEC...
In the last part of the series we introduced you to Gerhard Schwenke: he gives the Klöber prototype chairs the “GS mark”, so that they can go into series production. Today the story continues in cutting and stitching. Under the management of Judith Schmidt, the...
A new megatrend is emerging in the workplace alongside digitisation, mobility and open office: we’re talking about individuality. Interest in personalised office furniture is higher than ever before. In terms of specification, looks and material, our ConWork chair is packed full of goodies. As well as...
We’ve been maintaining contacts with architects all over the world for years – offline and online. But what do the architects actually think of Klöber and our office chairs? We asked them: Architects test – the AIT Klimastuhl test Nine interior architects and architecture firms from all...
Nothing works without light! Lighting has a huge influence on health, safety and wellbeing. But what does an optimally lit office look like? We asked someone who knows all about this: Dipl. Psych. Torsten Braun is an expert when it comes to light planning. Mr Braun,...
As manager of the Klöber test laboratory, every day Gerhard Schwenke is faced with files of standards, all of which have to be met. In this interview he reveals why, as far as he is concerned, the standards do not go far enough and why...
Rapid changes in the workplace, such as new working models, coworking, New Work etc., require constancy from the management. Not the managers we know from the “old work” format, but true leaders. But what makes top-level leaders stand out from the rest? I did some...
2018 couldn’t have got off to a better start for our Connex2 chair. This successful model has already notched up two illustrious awards. At the start of February it received the German Design Award 2018, which was immediately followed by the iF DESIGN AWARD 2018. ...
Company celebrations, the Moteo Klimastuhl and branding communications for 2018 With the New Year well under way, we are in a position to look back at an exciting and successful 2017 here at Klöber. This was my first year at Klöber – that’s reason enough to...
In Part 5 of our “Stages in the life of an office chair” series, I would like to hand you over to my colleague Leo Kiefer, master upholsterer and developer at Klöber, who will show you the upholstery development workshop. This is the department where...
Too hot, too cold: nearly one in five people disagrees with colleagues where the room climate is concerned. Furthermore not only does the temperature affect performance, but also how comfortable you feel. But these problems are a thing of the past thanks to the Mera...
The subject of Workplace 4.0 is something we at Klöber are looking at very closely. Many trends and studies predict the transformation and digitisation of the workplace in different ways – but I want to gain a more accurate idea, so I asked someone who...
If you want to reduce the duties of a manager – regardless of industry or company size – down to three key points, they would be: 1. planning strategically, 2. making decisions and 3. taking responsibility for these decisions. The management office is where these...
Be it the move away from fixed workstations, digital nomads or co-working spaces – here at the Klöber Blog we have been addressing changing office environments for quite some time now. Today we would like to turn our attention to a seating possibility that is...
In the first three parts of this series, my colleagues explained the timeline followed by a new Klöber office chair, passing through the Product Management, Design and Technical Implementation departments along the way. My job? Tool and fixture making. As the name of my department suggests,...
We’ve extended the Klöber leather range exclusively for the launch of our premium seating collection Tasso 2.0. As well as pigmented and semi-aniline leather, our portfolio now includes a pure aniline leather, which is just right for this classy lounge configuration. Pure aniline, semi-aniline, pigmented?...
A good office chair needs time. Here at Klöber we spend an average of two-and-a-half years on a new product that will be allowed to bear our brand name. Today I am interviewing Christian Roth-Schuler, head of Product Development, to find out what happens during...
Brrr! The icy chills of winter can really get us down. While some people here at Lake Constance spend their spare time out on the frozen lake (don’t try this at home!), many office workers all around Germany are having the same discussion they have...
Market observation, trend research and inspiration: these are the first steps in the life of an office chair, as explained in more detail by my colleague Hagen Trischler, product manager at Klöber, in Part 1 of this series. I’m going to describe what happens next....
“Tired but happy” – that summed up the state of our team after a more than successful ORGATEC 2016. Five sensational, dynamic and tension-filled days are now behind us: with an increase in visitor numbers of a full 68.5 per cent (!) to the Klöber...
A workstation on short-term rent, a sophisticated infrastructure, an environment which encourages creativity and fellow occupants who are there to offer advice, practical help and even the odd order? Yes, that exists! What co-working looks like in reality and what we at Klöber have to...
Four months after the market launch of our Klöber Klimastuhl and during a seemingly never-ending summer, our innovative office chair is more relevant than ever. In the first part of the “Living Lab smart office space” blog post, Prof. Hoffmann, research director at the Technical...
When the thermometer breaks through the 30-degree mark, it's sometimes difficult for employees to concentrate or stay motivated. The proper use of the resources on hand, a few simple changes to the daily routine and our Klöber Klimastuhl® can all help to make summer in...
There has been plenty going on at Klöber recently! Over the past few weeks we’ve been touring Germany with our innovative product highlight, the Klöber Klimastuhl with our goal to showcase the Klimastuhl as a world first by allowing people to experience it first-hand. We’ve received...
At the moment it’s all about the new Klimastuhl here. But did you know that we were working on continuously improving the innovative chair with its “heating” and “ventilation” functions long before it went into series production? For instance the Klimastuhl has been a central...
We spend an average of about seven and a half hours a day sitting down. For most of this time, office-based workers are using an office chair. And that’s sufficient time to make it worth taking a closer look at this piece of furniture. I’m...
In an era of rising energy costs, growing awareness of climate protection and conservation of resources, energy management is becoming an increasingly important theme for companies. In this context, heating and air conditioning certainly rank amongst the main cost drivers, alongside electricity for office equipment...
Everyone’s talking about “Generation Y”. Narcissistic, superficial and focused on leisure – that’s how the media tends to portray people born after 1980. But what’s all the prejudice about? Are the young people’s values really so very different from those of the previous generations? We...
Every morning, 28 million Germans get up and go to work. On average each of them spends two hours per day travelling to and from their place of work. One-third of these people would prefer a more flexible, more independent way of working – but...
There’s always a general macroclimate in the office. It’s primarily caused by influences that are controlled centrally, such as heating, air-conditioning, window ventilation and direct sunlight – but it can also depend on the building structure. Of course it’s no wonder you can’t achieve the...
When I first started work in the marketing department at Klöber a few weeks ago, I kept asking myself the same question: How does that work – having development and production combined at one site? Gradually I got to know the different departments and employees,...
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier.” – sometimes I really do agree with this quote by German-American architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. After all, one of our latest developments, the ConWork” office and conference chair, has...
Dear Readers, We’re in the process of bringing new momentum to the office. The market launch of our latest family member, the Klöber Klimastuhl, is just a few weeks away. But now it gives me particular pleasure to introduce the next highlight from the Klöber stable....
A laptop, a coffee cup, an inspiring environment – that describes where many employees would prefer to be. More and more people are choosing home offices and cafés over single workstations in the office – so that they can give free rein to their creativity....
I don’t think I’ve introduced myself yet? I’m Sarah Reichle. Cold hands and feet are normal for me. In winter I’m often to be found near a radiator, and even in the summer I rarely leave the house without a cardigan. Typical woman, some of...