Rethinking the Open Plan: Dividends Skyline by Knoll
New refined, holistically integrated system that brings privacy, focus, and collaboration to open-plan environments.
As workplace design continues to evolve, the old binary between open collaboration and focused privacy feels increasingly outdated. Today’s spaces demand flexibility, refined materiality, and a sense of holistic architectural intention—not just furniture solutions. Dividends Skyline, a new system from Knoll, looks beyond desks and screens to reframe the open plan as a total interior experience.
A Smarter Approach to Open-Plan Privacy
With a range of planning typologies to work with, all of which can be ordered to spec, designers can balance the privacy, connection, and flexibility demanded of today’s open-plan environment. New boundary typologies minimize visual and acoustic disruption to help foster focused work while still promoting light and visibility.
Dividends Skyline isn’t just another workstation system—it’s rooted in research and real workplace behaviors that show how teams and individuals now move between modes of work throughout the day.
Instead of segregating functions, Skyline blends privacy, connection, and adaptability within a unified design language. This is especially powerful for designers and architects seeking coherence across large floor plates.
Integrated shelving and freestanding storage in Dividends Skyline redefine how storage performs in the open plan. Add-up open shelves move beyond simple boundaries to introduce a new workplace archetype—supporting both connectivity and moments of seclusion while allowing daylight to flow from the perimeter to the core.
With the ability to specify shelving in varied densities, designers can create elegant, functional divisions that maintain porosity and visual continuity across the floorplate. Complementing this system, Dividends Skyline cubbies provide convenient storage and informal perching for visitors, while contributing to spatial massing and a sense of visual order throughout the environment.
Employees desire softer hospitality environments that echo the home, while employers seek solutions that enable informal collaboration and fit their company’s aesthetic identity. Both needs are satisfied with the modular Skyline Lounge collection, which can be planned inside and outside workstations.
This systems-first lounge collection is designed to pair with workstations. Its depths and widths register with workstation sizes, and its cube-like language echoes the workstation vernacular. The result is a cohesive total environment.
Skyline Lounge can also be planned outside of the workstation. This integration into the ancillary portfolio creates visual harmony across the entire floor plate.
