Designing Stimulating Workplaces
Can design fix afternoon slump?
Can design fix afternoon slump?
For a report on GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK’s) new open-space workplace in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard, Knowledge@Wharton spoke to a number of Wharton professors.
Need more evidence that workplace windows enhance mental and physical well-being?
Researchers at Northwestern have determined that it can be better to provide non-cash bonuses than monetary ones; which has implications for performance based enhancements to individual and group workspaces.
Per capita productivity increases as cities grow.
Lin and team investigated the influence of interruptions on office worker stress levels.
Leigh Thompson, a distinguished professor at the Kellogg School of Management, recently discussed her new book, Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration, in a blog posting for the Harvard Business Review.
Kemp and Williams analyzed business meetings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Rodgers investigates the relationship between newsroom design and news reported through a case study of the Toronto Star workspace.
Congdon and Gall present Steelcase’s recent research linking culture and design, which builds on the work of others, such as Geert Hofstede, in useful graphics at the web address noted in the citation, below.