The Keys To A Beautiful, Sustainable Workplace
When you choose furniture for your workplace, what matters most?
Is it the design or the durability, the fit or the function, the color or the components? As workplaces evolve into more welcoming and dynamic destinations for collaboration, it’s hard to compromise. It’s fair to want it all — and feel like your purchase is responsible, too.
Environmental efforts are ingrained in HON’s culture, and we strive to create products that help our customers confidently meet greener goals.
Featured Product: HON and SEAQUAL INITIATIVE Upcycled Marine Plastic Fabrics
ESG in Office Furniture Matters
Ocean plastics are among the most alarming environmental concerns. A patch of floating debris in the Pacific Ocean is effectively the third largest island in the world behind Greenland and Australia.
That’s why HON partnered with SEAQUAL INITIATIVE to help turn reclaimed marine plastics into fabric now available on the HON products you already know. They’re as soft and durable as their predecessors, and available in a fresh, full range of colors that may surprise you. HON’s new Getaway, Kai, Vast, and Wavelength fabrics are available on most of HON’s award-winning seating options, office dividers and organization solutions including Workwall, and other popular lines. From cool and serene Beach, Bay, and Tundra tones to warmer Grasslands, Countryside, and Garden hues, these post-consumer fabrics create a connection with the natural world we all share.
Featured Products: Nucleus seating, and HON SEAQUAL INITIATIVE Upcycled Marine Plastic Fabrics in pattern Wavelength
The Best Products Are Built to Last
Like the trend of “fast fashion,” where clothing is hastily created and lasts as long as the latest trend, there’s an obvious solution: Make products that last longer. It’s a value we consider every day.
Material selection and timeless design are found in solutions like HON’s Ignition and Nucleus task chairs, which are created with intentional durability at every level. They’re easy to clean and tough to the core with warranties that ensure years of life. And if something is accidentally damaged, there are plenty of spare parts. You don’t throw away the car you love just because you get a flat tire. Isn’t it better to repair a broken caster than replace an otherwise capable chair?
HON has a sustainability team working to make our products even better. When it comes to the makeup of our chairs, we consider the frame, the fabric, even the glue as part of that sustainability. From the initial design to reducing the packaging, environmental stewardship is all in a day’s work.
Reduce Waste at Every Opportunity
Many companies consider environmental efforts a long-term investment, with actual dividends still years away. But that distant horizon is closer than it seems. Increasingly, attracting and retaining employees comes down to company culture, and trust in an organization’s leadership on sustainability often extends to overall decision making. HON is committed to creating, and sticking to, best practices.
There are initiatives across all of HON’s product lines. From donated samples to reusing trim, HON is exploring the life cycle of our solution materials. By turning sawdust into the particle board for HON laminates and grinding down trim to be repurposed in car trunk liners, every day we administer corporate responsibility in our processes.