Remote work blog

The most wonderful time of the year is right around the corner: cozy interiors, festive atmosphere, meeting with your family and friends, but also tons of food waste, wrong gifts, and plastic scraps drifting merrily through our seas and oceans. How can we stop this c...

With thousands of Black Friday offers competing for your attention, you can feel compelled to make rash shopping decisions which inadvertently overflow landfills. To avoid drowning in the ocean of sales, keep your cool and don’t get swept up by the waves of discounts...

Personalized products and services are becoming more and more commonplace – according to a 2022 report by Salesforce, 73% of customers want brands to understand their unique wants and needs, while 56% expects for their offers to be personalized. Oakywood’s configurat...

On one special day each year, Oakywood’s employees get up from their desks or get out of the workshop to meet somewhere in Poland, somewhere even the navigation struggles to find. We grab spades and begin to dig holes which will be home to oak, linden, maple, elm, po...

Black Friday is one of the most important holidays in every bargain hunter’s calendar. It is also one of the bleakest days for our planet. The carbon footprint generated by our rife overconsumption results in ongoing environmental degradation and brings us ever close...

Artists taking inspiration from old styles and reinterpreting them in the modern key, the ever repeating trend cycle, bold or subtle callbacks to the bygone eras, and combining the ‘old’ with the ‘new’ - are common themes in design, fashion, architecture, or art. Why...

We have been working on a unique offer to accommodate our business clients for some time now and today, we can proudly say that the Oakywood for Business offer is live. To get to know our new customers a little better, we asked a few chosen interior designers some qu...

Creating products which effortlessly combine beauty with functionality is of utmost importance for everyone here at Oakywood; our accessories are all meticulously designed and thoroughly tested for their usefulness. Since design is one of the key aspects of our brand...

Expanding the functionality of our products and ensuring that our accessories offer more than one use, has been one of Oakywood’s goals from the very beginning. This is why our MagSafe collection consists of items which are multipurpose and can be used in a variety o...

Our Standing Desk equipped with an automatic height regulation system is not only a sturdy product, it is also a sizable piece of furniture. You can adjust the tabletop size to your required size, but remember that the frame and engine also take up some space. How ca...

Professional burnout is an increasingly burning issue - so much so, its updated definition has been added to the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases diagnostic manual. Unfortunately, its early symptoms are quite inconspicuous and can ...

It might seem like learning ends with the last school bell or receiving your college diploma. It is probably the case for some, but it is certainly not a good example to follow. Lifelong learning has an immense effect on the state of our mind, our health, and our wel...

Podhale, or the “Polish Highlands'', is a very distinctive region – especially when it comes to architecture and design. It is also Oakywood’s birthplace, and although our products don’t reference the Podhalan style directly, we still share some common traits: unique...

Going back to work after a leisurely break is like going back to the future: at first it’s a shock, but ultimately it feels comforting to be in a familiar environment. Sometimes, however, returning to work seems daunting, like being banished from paradise right back ...

Designing your home office is a process not to be taken lightly – if you want a truly functional and comfortable workspace, you must put in some time and effort. It will all be worth it because a well-fitted space facilitates not only healthy productivity but also go...

There are many tried and tested ways to have a productive summer and remain focused on work despite the wonderful weather outside. However, even religiously sticking to the productivity script will not bring the desired results without proper rest and regeneration of...

We’ve recently teamed up with Thisispaper Magazine and together we’ve met with two of the most talented, polish visual artists. Check out the result of this exciting meeting.  Post-War Polish design has been stirring up strong emotions for years. Delving into history...

Even though the summer months mainly bring to mind vacations, not everyone is able to take time off for holiday. If you’re spending your whole summer accompanied by your work laptop, you might want to consider a workation: a combination of work and vacation. Where to...