Mental Fatigue, Physical Fatigue (02-25-09)
People who are mentally tired are fatigued more quickly when doing a physical task than people who are not.
People who are mentally tired are fatigued more quickly when doing a physical task than people who are not.
Recent research by the General Services Administration (GSA) provides additional evidence that working in an environmentally responsible workplace has positive psychological implications.
Clay, writing in the Monitor on Psychology, reports information indicating that neither adults nor children can effectively perform several tasks at the same time.
In a report about current office design practices prepared by the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce and DEGW, famed researcher Frank Duffy of DEGW states, “Places and spaces will become far more – not less – important, in our new world of technologically enhanced, knowledge-based work."
Oommen, Knowles, and Zhao have reviewed the research related to open plan offices.
The UK’s Designing for the 21st Century Initiative, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the Royal College of Art have jointly assessed the workplace design related needs of office workers over the age of 50.
Bradley traces the evolution of the American office by focusing on the way in which the relative power of employers and employees has been manifested in workplace design.
Recent research has indicated significant influences of office lighting on worker experience.
Recent articles explore the psychological ramifications of workplace physical features, as well as how these physical features interact with socially constructed elements of organizations, such as corporate cultures.
Praus reports on DEGW research related to Generation Y and workplace design.