Category: Workspace design

Please Note: Resources are listed in date order with most recent listed first.

• Office Ergonomics

  A brief guide to creating an ergonomically healthy workstation, including information on chair selection, computer work and laptop use.

  Type: article, assessment, guide, recommendations, tool

• The relative merits of lean, enriched, and empowered offices: an experimental examination of the impact of workspace management strategies on well-being and productivity

  Researchers look at the effect on employee well-being and productivity that lean, enriched, empowered and disempowered office spaces have, as well as the relationship between organizational citizenship behaviour and workspace design. Lean office spaces have the largest negative impact on both productivity and well-being. Enriched office spaces are better but empowered office spaces performed the best. However, if employees are empowered to design their office space and then their decisions are overridden (disempowerment condition) this negatively affects both productivity and well-being. This study offers support for both enriched and empowered workspace environments.

  Type: study

• Meeting Design Characteristics and Attendee Perceptions of Staff/Team Meeting Quality

  Using a survey format, 367 participants rated eighteen “best practice” meeting design characteristics in relation to perception of meeting quality. Nine of the meeting design principles are significant predictors of perceived meeting quality with four relating to the physical environment. This study shows a relationship between a large array of controllable factors and meeting quality offering managers wishing to improve their meeting quality several ways to accomplish this goal.

  Type: study