| Is Your Job Making You Sick? |
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As many as 20% of office workers show symptoms of Sick Building Syndrome, complaining of chronic illness, itching, eye and throat irritation, loss of concentration and general malaise. It's not surprising when you consider that an air-tight office complex may contain ten times more pollutants than fresh air. |
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| Going Green |
An interview with Allan Smith, director, communications and environmental strategy, Steelcase Inc.
According to a recent Steelcase Workplace Index Survey conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, 57% of all respondents believe environmental and sustainability issues are a high priority for their company. Yet, only 35% of those surveyed said their company always takes steps to improve the company's environmental standards. We spoke with Allan Smith, director, communications and environmental strategy, Steelcase Inc., about some of the initiatives Steelcase has undertaken to minimize its environmental impact and help customers make more environmentally responsible choices. |
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| Ergo Tips |
| Interested in feeling more comfortable in your workstation? Browse these 36 illustrated tips for ideas. |
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| High Tech/High Touch in Healthcare |
| Every business deals with technological change, but perhaps no industry feels its impact more than healthcare. Technology permeates the healthcare organization. From electronic records to digital images to direct physician order entry, healthcare providers must not only use technology effectively, they have to make it work on a personal level for both staff and patients. |
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| Managing Order Out of Chaos |
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Managing the explosion of information in today's workplace starts with the individual. People need the opportunity to learn strategies for organizing their work, how to apply those strategies to suit their goals and individual work styles, and how to organize their work environments to support their organizing style. |
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| The Next Evolution of the Personal Workspace |
| It's the foundation of better learning, improved negotiation, problem-solving, and "most importantly" innovation. Through years of exploration, the power of pairs has been thoroughly substantiated by psychologists, sociologists, communications researchers and other social scientists. What happens when these psychological and behavioral insights are systematically applied to workplace design? Read how new research by Steelcase has resulted in breakthrough ideas for how personal work spaces can be designed, furnished and used to better support how most people really work today. |
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| Bluespace: The Office of the Future Has a Mind of its Own |
| Imagine an office that instantly responds to your arrival by adjusting its temperature, lighting and airflow to your preferred settings. It then unlocks sealed personal information folders on your computer, and with overhead lights, visibly announces your presence to your colleagues. Simultaneously, it alerts a "buddy list" of your team coworkers and signals through an exterior electronic message board if you are ready for visitors, your day's agenda and anything else you wish to announce to the world at large. And that's just BlueSpace's way of saying, "Hello." |
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| Are you a filer or a piler? |
| Steelcase Study Reveals How Workers Organize Their Workspace |
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| Corporate Environmental Concerns |
| Steelcase Workplace Index Survey reveals corporate environmental concerns. |
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| Demise of the Corner Office |
| Study Shows That Only 17 Percent of American Office Workers Would Take the Corner Office if They Had Their Choice |
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