Lighting Linked to Engagement (09-23-11)
Veitch, Stokkermans, and Newsham build on earlier research and tie users’ evaluations of lighting conditions to worker engagement.
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.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University and Clalit Healthcare Services determined that “employees who believe that they have the personal support of their peers at work are more likely to live a longer life.”
Employee engagement is currently a hot topic around the executive water cooler.
Davis, Leach, and Clegg call for application of socio-technical principles to the “design and management of workspace change.”
Designers are regularly asked to create spaces for confidential conversations to take place.