Why Office Design Matters
This is an excerpt from Tom Davenport's new book, Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers.
From either previous research, logic, or common sense, there are a few things we know about the relationship between physical work environments and knowledge worker performance. They include:
Knowledge workers prefer closed offices, but seem to communicate better in open ones
Knowledge workers congregate in particular geographical areas
Knowledge workers move around in the course of their work
Knowledge workers collaborate
Knowledge workers concentrate
Knowledge workers work in the office
Knowledge workers communicate with people who are close by
Knowledge workers don't care about facilities gewgaws
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