Affinity Health Gets the Noise Out
Affinity Health uses new materials to quiet an emergency room.
Increase Job Satisfaction & Organizational Commitment
Workplace Research: Satisfaction, Control and Territoriality
A plethera of new research adds to our understanding of employee interactions with their physical workplaces.
Psychological Benefits of Control Over Office Environments (07-01-10)
Knight and Haslam corroborated the findings of environmental psychologists, who have established the importance of workers’ control over their physical office environments.
If You Build It, Will They Stay? (05-27-10)
McGuire and McLaren investigated the relationship between the design of the physical workplace environment and employee commitment.
Office-Related Insights
An office is an office . . . at home or at work. And distractions are distractions except . . .
Music and Nature at the Bedside: Part II of a Two-part Series
In this article, we will look at the impact of the “characterless walls,” as they define the patient space and how nature elements mitigate some of the generic, impersonal features common to institutional care. This article was published in 2010.
Plants: Increasing Health and Well-Being
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.
Workplace Working Group
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.
Putting a Value on Workplace Personalization (11-05-09)
Environmental psychologists have known for some time that the ability to personalize a workstation increases employee job satisfaction and performance.
Triple Bottom Line and Workplace Design (08-04-09)
Researchers associated with Steelcase, have investigated the triple bottom line (financial, social, and environment) and workplace design.
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