Cubicle, Sweet Cubicle

Haslam, S. Alexander; Knight, Craig

doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0910-30

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“…This lean philosophy has a long history. Indeed, the idea that productive work requires a workspace clear of any interference was first formally implemented by Josiah Wedgwood in the 18th century (Dolan, 2004) and centuries later inspired Frederick Taylor (1911) to apply his principles of scientific management to the organization of office space (e.g., Crompton & Jones, 1984;Haslam & Knight, 2010, for a review). During the mid-20th century, these manufacturing methods were also applied to white-collar work (Haberkorn, 2005;Hyer & Wemmerlov, 2002) and it is from this approach that the term the "lean office" emerged as a discrete concept in the 1990s (e.g., Hirano, 1996).…”

Section: Less Is More: the Lean Officementioning

confidence: 99%

The relative benefits of green versus lean office space: Three field experiments.

Nieuwenhuis¹,

Knight²,

Postmes³

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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Principles of lean office management increasingly call for space to be stripped of extraneous decorations so that it can flexibly accommodate changing numbers of people and different office functions within the same area. Yet this practice is at odds with evidence that office workers' quality of life can be enriched by office landscaping that involves the use of plants that have no formal work-related function. To examine the impact of these competing approaches, 3 field experiments were conducted in large commercial offices in The Netherlands and the U.K. These examined the impact of lean and "green" offices on subjective perceptions of air quality, concentration, and workplace satisfaction as well as objective measures of productivity. Two studies were longitudinal, examining effects of interventions over subsequent weeks and months. In all 3 experiments enhanced outcomes were observed when offices were enriched by plants. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Section: Less Is More: the Lean Officementioning

confidence: 99%

The relative benefits of green versus lean office space: Three field experiments.

Nieuwenhuis¹,

Knight²,

Postmes³

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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Workplace and Wellbeing

Myerson

2014

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This chapter explores the design of the workplace environment as a major influence on the health and wellbeing of workers. It charts the historical development of the modern office as an industrial model of efficiency and draws on the “environmental comfort” model of Canadian psychologist Jacqueline Vischer to differentiate between three different levels of comfort that people require in the workplace: physical, functional, and psychological comfort. Drawing on a range of sources, the chapter argues that the health and wellbeing of office workers will not be significantly improved until workplace design does more to tackle the demands of psychological comfort.

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