Managers, architects, designers and others responsible are responsible for providing buildings, interiors and other facilities for work.
Here we examine some of the issues they face in specifying, providing and supporting offices in a rapidly changing business and technology environment:
Cabling:
The need to route power, telephone, and data cabling to every workstation puts a [...]
The changing need for office property is being influenced heavily by the universal adoption of information and communications technology.
New demands are:
the vast array of mains and signal cables needs to be managed extra heat from the equipment needs to be controlled or removed new health and safety risks include electrical hazards, sitting positions, [...]
Encouraging creativity is good for attracting and retaining quality employees, always an issue even in this bad economy.
Tell people you want their ideas then give them some amount of time and space to think creatively Instead of fearing that you’re losing an employee’s clocked-in time to creative thinking, look at it from another angle–you [...]
Admit it. When do you get your best ideas? When you’re sitting at your desk striving for an answer, or when you’re doing something off-task like driving, walking, or puttering around the house?
On the surface, daydreaming seems like the antithesis of “work,” yet it’s truly at the core of our most important type of [...]
Tomorrow, July 24, the 5th Creative Talk will take place in Turin at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali.
Participants will discuss about “Darwinism and Company Organization. How do we differentiate? Survival and extinction.”
Follow us on streaming from 5 – 7 p.m. at: http://www.livestream.com/workstyletv?t=212065
People who take the job of parenting seriously can teach us a great deal about managing and motivating people at the office, handling crises and keeping the life/work balance in healthy perspective.
Some principles of management and parenting:
Treating people with respect and listen to what others say. Negotiation. Ability to motivate people and inspire [...]
It is your responsibility, as Leader of your team, to build a history of trust in the workplace so that you minimize the distance your team members need to “leap” in faith.
Creating high levels of trust doesn’t just happen. It is an intentional and deliberate process that involves planning and dedicated implementation.
5 elements [...]
Pablo Picasso once said, “An act of art begins as an act of destruction”. Creative chaos occurs when established patterns are destroyed, with the hope of something new arising from the positive chaos by the destruction.
Many people who work in creative fields often prefer a chaotic or disorderly environment around them while they work [...]
Every day, millions of workers do something dangerous to their health: they sit down.
Sitting for long periods is hard on the body. It strains the back and causes the muscles to become slack. It slows the processes that metabolize calories, increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
People might think [...]
Workers who commute by car, bus or train to the office are more likely to suffer from stress and exhaustion, according to a study.
Scientists assessed 12,000 employees aged between 18 and 65. They found that those who travelled to work by car or public transport reported higher levels of stress and tiredness compared to [...]
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