Health Concerns Promote In-Building Exercise Options
Creating workplaces with employee health in mind is resulting in worksite design changes.
Creating workplaces with employee health in mind is resulting in worksite design changes.
Researchers report that employees sitting near windows spent more time during the workday actually using their computers than employees sitting in interior cubicles.
Whether people perceive themselves as professional successes or as professional failures influences their perceptions of their physical environment and their evaluations of their workplaces.
The focus at NeoCon 2004 was the future. There was even more interest in sustainable design than in past years. The companies presenting products at this year’s show also seemed to have turned a mental corner and have begun to put the negative financial experiences of the last few years behind them.
The National Research Council (NRC) of Canada has recently completed its COPE (Cost-effective Open-Plan Environments) project for workplace environments.
Evidence has shown that ergonomic interventions can decrease worker discomfort, but can they increase productivity? Are ergonomic guidelines being ignored in schools?
Daylighting has become a less important source of interior lighting, but concerns about energy consumption are causing a resurgence.
McCoy and Evans have determined that environments in which individuals are creative share certain features.
The physical features of the indoor work environment are closely linked to human behaviors such as creativity, teamwork, and leadership.
Lab designers are now fully incorporating research-backed workplace design principles that have been used successfully in office spaces into the high-science/high-tech environments they are creating.