Space Meets Status: Designing Workplace Performance

Vischer, Jacqueline

ISBN 10: 041570104X / ISBN 13: 9780415701044

Published by Routledge, 2005

About this Item

This book deals with problems created when workstations are downsized and employees feel their status is under threat. Looking at practical and psychological aspects of the work environment, the author shows how space can be planned more effectively. Num Pages: 188 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AM; KJMV4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 635. . 2005. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Space Meets Status: Designing Workplace Performance
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041570104X
• ISBN 13: 9780415701044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

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.