Workplace Design and Employee Creativity/Innovativeness
The role of workplace design in innovation and the way in which building design can influence creativity and communication are probed in two recent articles.
The role of workplace design in innovation and the way in which building design can influence creativity and communication are probed in two recent articles.
Rosen reviews recent research on multitasking.
Trash cans can be redesigned to reduce littering.
Perceptions of lighting quality in their open plan offices influence workers’ opinions about their work lives.
Lighting influences how we use a space. It can be considered a building material, just as concrete and steel are building materials, although it lacks physical form.
Occupant surveys reveal that people working in green buildings have different opinions about their building and their comfort.
Individuals working in spaces with live interior plants or window views have significantly higher levels of job satisfaction than people who work in spaces without live plants or windows.
Kate Bonsall, of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield, presented a paper at the recent annual meeting of the Division of Occupational Psychology of the British Psychological Society that cast doubt on the value of hot desking.
People often can not control ambient conditions in their workspaces - they may not be able to set lighting and heating levels, for example.
Welsh and his colleagues have recently completed a study with implications for the design of open workplaces.