Floor Planning for Success
Effective floor plans share certain features.
Effective floor plans share certain features.
Research has shown that smaller groups expend less effort to complete tasks than larger ones.
Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) with private rooms may not be optimal environments for infants.
Researchers at the University of Michigan continue to release information related to their studies of workspace design and collaboration.
Kim and de Dear analyzed post-occupancy data collected by the Center for the Built Environment to assess, among other topics, the relationship between office layout and employee communication.
Leigh Thompson, a distinguished professor at the Kellogg School of Management, recently discussed her new book, Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration, in a blog posting for the Harvard Business Review.
Congdon and Gall present Steelcase’s recent research linking culture and design, which builds on the work of others, such as Geert Hofstede, in useful graphics at the web address noted in the citation, below.
Galvan and her research team have gathered additional evidence indicating that acoustically shielded telephone booths/rooms/conversation areas are useful in workplaces, transportation hubs, healthcare facilities, and anywhere else people can potentially overhear telephone conversations.
Carbone and Nauth, respected futurists, have written about the homes of 2022 in The Futurists.
A recent study at the University of Michigan supports co-locating team members.