Workplace Focus: Evidence-Based Workplace Design
Three articles highlight practical workplace design guidelines as they relate to communication between co-workers, organizational knowledge, and office functionality.
Increase Job Satisfaction & Organizational Commitment
Recent Privacy Research Useful for Workspace Designers
In 2005, we conducted privacy studies for office workers at a large Midwestern manufacturer to determine what architectural privacy features impacted individual and group privacy across several job types. In the process, we learned several interesting things that designers can apply immediately to enhance perceived privacy in the workplace.
Control Matters
Personal control over the physical workspace led to higher perceived group cohesiveness and job satisfaction.
Lighting and Daylighting Knowledge Review
A comprehensive new resource examines lighting quality and perception and their relation to work performace outcomes.
The Debate over Decorative Fountains in Healthcare Environments: How Great is the Infection Control Risk?
This article examines the source of concern over decorative fountains and water features in hospital environments and raises questions about whether or not evidence exists to substantiate these concerns.
Space Meets Status: Designing for Workplace Performance
The question of how office workers are affected by features of the physical environment in which they work has preoccupied researchers as well as designers and building industry professionals for many years. Studies indicate that regardless of physical features, office employees become invested in and attached to their workspaces.
Issues with Open Workplaces
A recent review of literature published since 1972 indicates that individuals working in open workspaces have lower levels of privacy and job satisfaction.
Consider Baby and Staff When Designing Neonatal Intensive Care Units
A new review has combed the available research literature to collect information relevant to the design of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Indoor Air Quality: Objective and Subjective Components
Research continues to explore the link between the air we breathe at work and human health and productivity. Several studies find building-related factors to be related to air quality, while equipment, such as new computers, can also pose air-quality problems. How people feel about their work environment also affects their satisfaction with the perceived quality of ventilation.
Positive Distractions Influence Experience of Nursing Staff
When positive distractions are introduced into the work environments at long-term care facilities, workers perceive that their physical work environments have been improved.
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