Creating Productive Workplaces
Recent research highlights attributes of workplaces that enhance worker performance.
Recent research highlights attributes of workplaces that enhance worker performance.
Smith-Jackson and Klein evaluated the influence of irrelevant speech on task performance in open-plan offices. This research is special because of the analyses completed.
Na Wang’s exquisitely thorough and thoughtful dissertation research investigates our emotional, attitudinal, and cognitive responses to sunlight, window views, privacy, and control.
Researchers have recently studied preferred bedroom design, and their findings support conclusions that have been drawn by biophilic design experts.
In this open source article, Sailer and her colleagues introduce readers to important tenets of space syntax by investigating the influence of several office design interventions on organizational behavior.
Cesario and his colleagues have investigated how place design influences responses to threatening stimuli.
Hua and her colleagues comprehensively analyzed workplaces, identifying physical factors perceived by workers to support collaborative work or linked by workers to distractions from other people’s interactions.
Porath and her colleagues have investigated situations in which customers see employees interact who are upset with each other, and the ramifications are dire.
School cafeteria design is receiving increased research attention as the youth obesity epidemic broadens.
Cognitive performance, and particularly memory, is improved when people are walking, and more specifically, when they are walking at their own pace.