Month: June 2017

• Health and safety is no longer enough in the new world of work

  Posted on June 28, 2017 by admin

  

  The Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) is an incredibly important piece of legislation and one which gave workers and employers their first basic rights pertaining to the workplace. But the act is over forty years years old and while no one questions that it was a turning point in the way things were, […]

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• The elemental links between workplace wellbeing and productivity

  Posted on June 27, 2017 by admin

  

  The quest for a proper understanding of the links between the places we work and our wellbeing and productivity has been ongoing for a very long time. It predates the health and safety debate as we now know it with roots in research such as that carried out at the Hawthorne Works in Chicago in […]

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• Flexible working and ergonomics;  so easy a child can do it

  Posted on June 26, 2017 by admin

  

  Language may be constantly evolving but if you want to see how a word can lose its meaning quickly, there’s no better example than watching the way some companies can misappropriate it in a misguided attempt to help them sell their products. For example, the big problem with the way some people talk about the […]

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• Good ergonomics is about moving and standing as well as sitting

  Posted on June 24, 2017 by admin

  

  Although the idea has been around for a long time, workplace ergonomics first came to prominence in the wake of the intensive growth in the use of computers. That wasn’t really all that long ago, maybe 25 years, but its legacy is already a fairly fixed and traditional idea of the ideal workstation and the […]

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• Change is a fact of modern working life and design can help us embrace it

  Posted on June 14, 2017 by admin

  

  When people talk about the pace of change in the modern world, they often refer to the speed at which technology develops. In fact, almost every aspect of the world in which we live is subject to near continuous change. In the case of workplace design, the world is shifting very quickly indeed, often as […]

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• Designing the workplace to slow things down helps us to get more done

  Posted on June 12, 2017 by admin

  

  The idea that for every action there is an equivalent reaction applies just as much in culture as it does in physics. So just as life speeds up to the point where Twitter is taken seriously as a way of communicating serious ideas, a growing number of people are looking at ways of putting the brakes. Most […]

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• How small can be beautiful in office design, even in major industries

  Posted on June 11, 2017 by admin

  

  When it comes to the world’s most fast-moving industries, information technology firms tend to grab most of the headlines. Yet some of the world’s most advanced and innovative companies don’t work in the information technology sector. One of the world’s leading life sciences firms is also one of its most successful. Sigma-Aldrich as part of […]

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• When it comes to creating environmentally friendly offices, we need to exceed legislation

  Posted on June 10, 2017 by admin

  

  Greenwash is one of those terms that has gone from needing an explanation to common usage in the space of a few years. It’s a term that reflects a certain cynicism about the claims of vendors based on a few examples of bad practice. Sometimes this can be doubly unfair on sectors in which manufacturers […]

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