Our Global Headquarters

Knowledge Topics

We’ve spent the past 70+ years studying the ways people work to create thoughtfully designed products and global office solutions to support organizations like yours. Explore a sampling of our research and knowledge below.

Research & Workplace Strategy

Innovation & Advanced Development

Design Inspiration

Our passion is place—from the physical to virtual—and we strive to positively impact the quality of people’s lives and work.

We’ll share our research approach and results from our most recent projects. We will also explore opportunities to apply this research to your workplace, helping your people be more effective while optimizing your real estate.

Our commitment to innovation and design forms the foundation for the future workspace. See how we’re experimenting with leading-edge product concepts and application designs.

Design thinking permeates everything we do—from products to spaces—and it’s grounded in two key elements: performance and desire. This essential combination complements our promise to tailor products and spaces that help people do their best work while optimizing real estate.

Welcome

Overview

Knowledge

Manufacturing

Space Matters

Welcome

Overview

Knowledge

Manufacturing

Welcome to Our Home

We’re excited for the time we can meet in person in Holland, Michigan. Until then, please enjoy this virtual visit to our global headquarters. Scroll down to get a glimpse of some of our spaces and find out what we’re all about.

Our passion is place—from the physical to virtual—and we strive to positively impact the quality of people’s lives and work. Our headquarters at One Haworth Center not only showcases our family of brands, it also serves as a foundational tool for experimentation and learning. This living lab allows us to study our products as they are used in real-life settings, which informs our unique Organic Workspace approach to creating spaces that result in effective people and efficient use of real estate.

A Living Lab

Three pillars—combined—make us uniquely positioned to serve you. The first is Family Owned: Three generations of leadership in the Haworth family have been at the helm for over 70 years. Our customers benefit from their long-term investments and business decisions that have been consistent through a family-owned, values-led company.

Family Owned

The second pillar is Global Expertise: From showrooms to manufacturing sites, research centers, and our brand partners, we’re located where you are. With 30+ years in international markets, we have firsthand experience serving global organizations—from tailoring solutions for local cultures to offering international design perspectives and providing faster delivery.

Global Expertise

Product & Technology Solutions

Meet with the teams responsible for our product and technology portfolio to explore how changes in the workplace influence product design and see first-hand the quality construction behind our product solutions.

Manufacturing

From seating and panels to wood veneer, storage components, and walls, you’ll travel through 1,400,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space and observe the skillful techniques and technologies employed by the people who make our products.

People & Processes

Our experts and industry leading professionals work together to drive Haworth’s vision, partnering with you to create spaces that result in effective people and efficient real estate. We’ll share our experiences and brainstorm potential solutions with you—all tailored to your needs.

Sample Agenda

For an idea of what your visit may look like, download our Sample Agenda. Connect with your Haworth representative to review and prioritize your agenda to make the most of your experience.

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We Look Forward to Seeing You

Our global headquarters is the ideal locale to fuel your workplace vision, providing you with fresh inspiration for your projects and space design. You have choices when you partner with Haworth. We’ll help you create the spaces that solve for your business needs—resulting in effective people and efficient use of real estate.

The third pillar is Design Led: Design thinking complements our pursuit to create Organic Workspace environments that align people and space for optimal performance. Our in-house Global Innovation and Research teams partner with the world’s leading research institutions and designers to uncover the latest trends and apply collaborative knowledge for innovative perspectives.

Design Led

Organic Workspace is unique to Haworth: It’s our perspective of space design built on research and knowledge. It’s also our process for creating spaces with our partners and customers. The result is to aligning people and space for optimal performance in organizations like yours.

Organic Workspace

Product Solutions

Work from Anywhere

Culture

Fostering a culture unique to your organization nurtures engagement and fuels innovation. Workplace design is one of the most valuable tools you can use to reinforce your company’s culture, drive business strategy, and bolster performance.

Affordances

A well-designed workplace connects people and space, enabling optimal human performance—cognitively, emotionally, and physically. Our Global Design & Innovation team has identified 10 core characteristics, or Affordances, vital to human performance and critical to supportive workspace design.

One of several manufacturing sites in the US—and around the world—our global headquarters location includes 1,400,000 square feet of manufacturing space that houses the production of a range of panels, wood veneer, storage components, and walls. Learn more and take a virtual inside look at our facility, technologies, and the skillful techniques employed by the people who make our products.

Manufacturing

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Click each segment to learn more about each culture type

Preserving your unique culture to empower your workforce and maximize your office space is essential for success—and even more important during this pivotal time. Culture serves as a guidepost for people’s needs and organizational goals. To enhance the performance of your people, organization, and facility, it’s important to understand cultural implications— what people value and how it affects space design.

Understand Your Team’s Needs

Team brainstorming, social connections, creativity, access to materials, face-to-face meetings, commute

Office

Meetings over coffee, socializing, focus work, touchdown when traveling, work hub locations

Third Space

Focus work, reading, virtual meetings, scheduled calls, no commute

Home

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We look at organizational and individual needs by four culture types: Collaborate, Create, Control, and Compete.

Leveraging the Competing Values Framework

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Work from Anywhere is the ecosystem that gives organizations and employees choice in where and when work occurs. Work will happen fluidly through the entire ecosystem of office, home, and third place, with the office as the hub. We are exploring how the office needs to change to optimize the space to enhance culture, encourage collaboration, and support human performance.

Work from Anywhere

Being able to connect with people virtually is a new normal. To keep everyone in the organization connected, more embedded, easy-to-use technology will be needed throughout the space.

As the office becomes the hub of connection and culture for the organization, more group spaces will be desired to support collaboration.

Creativity thrives when groups can easily switch between focus and restore activities. Providing this flexibility in the office enhances the experience, creating a workplace where people will want to work together in person.

As we return to the office, the way we use space and what we expect in the workspace has changed—it will be more about the activities and autonomy than assigned to individuals. Space will shift to provide more group space, flexible multi-use spaces, and smaller focus areas.

Space design will focus on human performance in aesthetic and vibe—bringing in more hospitality and focusing on the experience around health, safety, and service.

Digital Workplace

More Collaboration

Focus to Restore

Space Shift

More Human

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What's Changed

5 THEMES FOR THE FUTURE OF THE OFFICE

AFFORDANCE • (noun) The characteristics of an object or space that encourages a particular behavior, or—put more simply—the opportunity for action. A workspace is much more than a container for people. And it’s much more than a tool used to perform a task. A well-designed workspace participates in performing the task, enabling optimal human performance -cognitively, emotionally, and physically. The Haworth Global Design & Innovation team’s studies have identified 10 core Affordances vital to human performance in any workspace, and critical to the design of an Organic Workspace. When applied effectively, they help create the conditions that support well-being, allow people to do their best work, and enhance the workplace experience.

Affordances

Worker/Workplace Relationship

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Culture

The office is the hub of an integrated ecosystem that balances work across three primary locations: office, home, and third places. More dynamic and experiential than ever, the office has become somewhere people want to work—not a place they have to go.

From the office to home to third places, we offer complete floorplan solutions to support the Work from Anywhere ecosystem and create the spaces you need.

Product Solutions

NeoCon Experience

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From the office to home to third places, we offer complete floorplan solutions to support the Work from Anywhere ecosystem and create the spaces you need.

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Designed by Patricia Urquiola and Studio Urquiola, the House of Haworth features spaces with a residential feel and products from our family of brands and Haworth Collection partners.

House of Haworth

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Located near our global headquarters, the Haworth Hotel offers an exclusive experience for our guests. Designed by Patricia Urquiola, it features global products from our brand partners and a variety of meeting, hospitality, and social spaces.

Haworth Hotel

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