Space Meets Status: Designing Workplace Performance - Hardcover

Vischer, Jacqueline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041570104X ISBN 13: 9780415701044

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Showing how worker productivity and stress levels are affected by factors such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise and layout, this book demonstrates how the technical aspects of human comfort do not always tally with users' perceptions and behaviour. With vivid examples and case studies to illustrate how space is a corporate resource rather than simply overhead, Vischer reveals how companies can improve their ability to make design decisions on how best to accommodate their employees in a high quality workspace.

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About the Author

Jacqueline C. Vischer is an environmental psychologist with a degree in Architecture. Until recently director of the consullting firm Buildings-In-Use which provided workplace consulting and design services to a variety of significant coproprate and government clients, she is now professor at the University of MOntreal, and founder and director of the New Work Environments Research Group (Groupe de Recherche sur les Environnements de Travail). She has written several pervious books on the human aspects of workspace, and her method of measuring the human impact of environmental conditions in offices is widely cited and used internationally.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041570104X
• ISBN 13: 9780415701044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188