Office Design and Days Out Sick (10-27-11)
Pejtersen and his colleagues surveyed Danish people working in offices.
Pejtersen and his colleagues surveyed Danish people working in offices.
Researchers continue to probe the most advantageous forms for workplaces.
Offices are designed to increase well-being and productivity, communicate symbolically, and to express an aesthetic message.
Does a lemon scent affect office workers' moods? Is the effect stronger in some offices than others?
Veitch, Stokkermans, and Newsham build on earlier research and tie users’ evaluations of lighting conditions to worker engagement.
Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas’ character in 1987’s Wall Street) thought lunch was for wimps, but millions of workers do eat lunch, some every day. Not a lot of workplace research has focused on their lunchtime activities, however.
Schwarz and Hasson recently completed an interesting worksite intervention at a set of dental offices.
Researchers noted long ago that men and women differ in ways that they prefer to personalize their environments.
The Harvard Business Review recently published a report on an office redesign project at Lilly.
Recent research indicates that brief, brisk (but not running) walks can enhance our ability to remember things.