Space Meets Status - Designing Workplace Performance (Paperback)

This book deals with the problems that are created when employers try to decrease the size of individual offices and workstations in order to increase work efficiency. Employees, who often regard their workspace as a "home from home," a retreat and a space that symbolizes their status and marks their territory feel threatened by this attempt to shrink "their" room.
Jacqueline Vischer summarizes significant research findings on office-space design and behavior from fields such as environmental psychology, architecture and interior design, employing terms that are accessible and interesting to practicing designers as well as business managers. Examples and case studies illustrate how space is a corporate resource, and how companies can improve their design decisions.
The book also examines the practical aspects of planning workspace for users. Worker productivity and stress levels are affected by lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise, and furniture layout. This book takes a new approach by showing how the technical aspects of human comfort in terms of building systems does not always tally with users' perceptions and behavior. By understanding more about how these factors affect work performance, corporate managers and design professionals can plan, design and manage the layout of the work environment more effectively.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Jacqueline Vischer
Foreword by:	Fritz Steele
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-70105-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Management of real estate, property & plant
LSN:	0-415-70105-8
Barcode:	9780415701051

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