Despite efforts to reuse and repurpose office equipment, most still ends up in the trash, said Trevor Langdon, the chief executive of Green Standards, a sustainability consulting company that helps to minimize office waste. Based on 2018 federal statistics on waste, the latest year with available data, Mr. Langdon estimates that more than 10 million tons of office furniture in the United States end up in a landfill every year….Green Standards said it has diverted almost 39,000 tons of office waste from landfills since the pandemic began.”
The Herman-Miller chair has been an expensive stable of offices for decades. But the company came under fire when the CEO was caught telling employees o leave “pity city’’ and stop asking about bonuses. She was compensated 5 million last year.
Why do companies continue to egregiously compensate CEOS when the writing on the wall is that the industry is in decline?
And if the pandemic killed the office and office furniture, how should we begin to adapt and repurpose old office furniture/spaces?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/nyregion/office-furniture-nyc.html