How do you create a low cost flexible environment that motivates employees and stimulates learning? This is one of the questions that Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies That Add Value and Improve Performance sets out to answer.
Franklin Becker
Jossey Bass, an imprint of Wiley
£25.50
Written by Franklin Becker, who has worked with many Fortune 500 companies to develop and implement innovative workplace strategies, the book addresses the fundamental design issues that confront companies.
It uses real examples to provide a broad range of insights and practical explanations for why different solutions work and make sense.
Becker offers guidance to managers faced with the task of balancing choice and diversity with standardisation and uniformity. He also discusses the relative benefits of an open versus closed office plan and shares the best ways to help employees adjust to a new workplace environment.
The book is broken into two parts. Part one, principles of workspace design, covers how offices have evolved, how the layout effects the way we work and communicate, the merits of colocation as well as issues of flexibility. Part two, guidelines for implementation, gives an insight into workspace planning tools, measuring performance, and managing workspace change.
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Building Sustainable Design
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