Better Planning Through Mathematics (10-08-10)
Fawcett and Song have developed a mathematical model to quantify how flexible work policies can be expected to influence employee behavior at knowledge-based organizations.
Fawcett and Song have developed a mathematical model to quantify how flexible work policies can be expected to influence employee behavior at knowledge-based organizations.
It’s easy for interior designers to draw people’s attention to the passing of time or to money.
There is more to optimal workplace design than adding a few windows.
Recent research highlights attributes of workplaces that enhance worker performance.
The Cost-Effective Open-Plan Environments (COPE) project has been an important source of information to workplace designers.
Lamy and his colleagues have investigated how names, particularly place names, make it more likely that people will think specific sorts of thoughts.
It seems logical that the physical design of workplaces where people spend their days should have ramifications for workers’ well-being after they leave them, but this study is among the first to rigorously explore that relationship.
As Carney and her colleagues relate, some physical postures are more indicative of power than others: “Humans and other animals express power through open, expansive postures, and they express powerlessness through closed, contractive postures.”
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.
Colzato and colleagues have completed an intriguing study indicating that religious views are related to whether people literally focus on details or an image overall.