The Free Range Workplace: Gensler at NeoCon

by Mallory Budy | July 4th, 2016

Once again, Gensler interior architects and workplace strategists Sven Govaars and Dean Strombom, out of Houston, served up a superb seminar presentation at NeoCon 2016 at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Officeinsight has readily followed this Gensler team’s research efforts, and we were lucky to be able to attend this year’s seminar. Now in their sixth year of delivering highly anticipated NeoCon seminars, Messrs. Govaars and Strombom set a precedent at NeoCon 2016: seats in their seminar, “The Free Range Workplace: People Experience, Freedom,” filled up so quickly that they were asked to present twice. We’ve all been to a few awful seminars, so our congrats to this team is served with a big side of gratitude. Kudos! Gensler, and many other design thought leaders, have been shedding light on the things in our world that are defining our modern life, work, and play – demographics and generational contrasts, globalization, …