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Walking enhances cognitive performance.
Multi-tasking, noise, nature and stair use: factors to consider in workplace design.
A plethera of new research adds to our understanding of employee interactions with their physical workplaces.
An office is an office . . . at home or at work. And distractions are distractions except . . .
Marilyn Zelinsky provides a primer, dictionary, and case-history book on what has been variously called “new officing,” “alternative officing,” or “alternative work environments” (AWEs).
This booklet is a first step in distributing current research knowledge about office environments from BOSTI’s large client database.
Tove Fjeld and his associates looked at how plants affected the health of office workers, while Larissa Larsen and her associates examined how indoor plants affected students in an office setting.
In recent years, employers have begun to offer “napping rooms” with couches or cots at their facilities or to allow employees to sleep at (or under) their desks. The number of these rooms in workplaces is expected to increase in the years ahead.
Open workplaces appear to increase beneficial and appropriately timed inter-employee communication. Becker and Sims found cubicle workspaces to be the least productive of today’s workplaces.
The Workplace Environment Network (WEN) of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) sponsored a symposium at EDRA's annual meeting to establish the effect of office design on organizational performance.