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Office Design
the arrangement of workspace so that work can be performed in the most efficient way. Office design incorporates both ergonomics and work flow, which examine the way in which work...
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Office Makeovers That Boost the Bottom Line
Badly configured offices aren't just killjoys — they kill profits, too. Here's how smart companies use space to their advantage.Researchers have said for years that the physical workspace of a business factors directly into productivity, job satisfaction, and, yes — profitability. Yet relatively few companies practice what everyone...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Architecture, Office Design, Jane Hodges, Collaboration, Cubicle, BNET Feature Package, Nicole Solis, Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Workspace, Design
Articles 2008-03-03
Image Gallery: Best and Worst Workplace Design
Want to make your employees more productive? Maybe you need nicer offices. Our image gallery of best and worst workplaces shows why design matters. by Karen Steen
Tags: office design, workplace, collaboration, workstation, productivity
Image galleries 2008-03-03
Office Designs for Optimizing Collaboration
The nature of work has changed considerably since the first cubicle was introduced in 1968. Today's workplaces need to be as adaptable and collaborative as the people inside them. Here's how Microsoft and other large companies have redesigned their offices for the way people work now. .officeDesignPic...
Tags: BNET Feature, Workspace Design, Office Architecture, Office Design, Jane Hodges, Management, Team Management, Construction, Wall, Worker, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Collaboration, Employee, Cubicle, Team, Space
Articles 2008-03-03
Office Design: How to Build a Better Office
A well-designed office is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to retain workers and make them more productive. Size Up Your Current Space Goal: Understand how well — or...
Tags: Office Design, Adjustment, Jane Hodges, Charlotte Wiederholt, Office Layout, Office, Worker, Space, Workplace, Employee, Microsoft Office, Conference, Office Architecture, Design, Crash Course
Articles 2008-02-29

Additional Resources

The American Bar Association Journal. (conducts a Law Office Design Competition) (Forum) (Brief Article)
The American Bar Association Journal is conducting a Law Office Design Competition that will cover seven categories of design, ranging from total restoration or historic preservation, to limited-budget office design for a small law firm. The entries The American Bar Association Journal is conducting a...
Tags: American Bar Association
Research articles 1994-02-01
NACORE speakers present smart office design trends
The vast changes in the way people work are having a major effect on office design. At a recent NACORE New York Chapter luncheon, a panel of design professionals and corporate decision-makers talked about current trends in "Cutting Edge Office Design' and the importance of design as a way to...
Tags: Deloitte LLP, environment, speaker
Research articles 1999-09-22
Inspiring Offices: Office Design That Drives Creativity.
By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor With office design linked to business outcome, designers need to understand the importance of creating workspaces that get people's juices flowing. Office design has always been linked to productivity-how...
Tags: Monitor Group, Sasaki Associates Inc.
Research articles 2007-03-01
Computers spur office design changes. (excerpts from John Diebold's keynote address at NEOCON)
International management authority John Diebold, in his keynote address at the recent NEOCON 16 in Chicago's Merchandise Mart told an audience of designers how he thinks information technology is changing the ground rules of office design. These c International management authority John Diebold,...
Tags: computer, Diebold Inc.
Research articles 1984-08-01
-PATENT OFFICE: Design for the next millennium (or up to twenty five years)
M2 PRESSWIRE-2 July 1998-PATENT OFFICE: Design for the next millennium or up to twenty five years C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:010798 Page 9 of the 24 June edition of Designs in View the Illustrated Journal of UK Registered Designs from the Patent Office features a highly...
Tags: BMW AG, Manufacturing, millennium, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Research articles 1998-07-02
TiVo, Office 2007, and Designing for the Customer
When design experts talk about "usability," they are really refering to design that works and makes sense from the user's point of view. Early versions of Microsoft Office were designed from an engineer's point of view, if often seemed. Every feature -- and there were dozens of them -- was...
Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, TiVo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-06-22
Hotel office idea sinks or swims on good design. (hotel office design) (Office Equipment & Design)
If a company isn't careful, when they check-in the hotel office concept they may be given the key to mass confusion. But using the so-called hotel office arrangement can result in significant cost savings if the offices are designed correctly, accordiIf a company isn't careful, when...
Tags: office equipment, team
Research articles 1994-07-18
Designing the Perfect Office
The New York Times moved into a brand-new office building this week, and already rival news sources are jumping at the opportunity to point out the weaknesses, including mice and poor office design. Putting aside the thought that this is sour-grapes reporting from journalists who might be...
Tags: Groupware, Office, Concentration, Article, Microsoft Office, Collaboration, Davenport Co., Enterprise Software, Software, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-06
AWR's Analog Office EDA Software Suite Delivers First-Pass Silicon Success at Jazz Semiconductor; 5.8GHz RFIC Built in Jazz Semiconductor's 0.35 Micron SiGe BiCMOS Designed Entirely Within Analog Office Design Environment
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWRR), today announced that the company's Analog OfficeTM design suite, a software product developed specifically for analog and radio-frequency integrated circuit RFIC design, has recently been used by a major Japanese electronics manufacturer to successfully design a 5.8GHz RFIC in an advanced...
Tags: environment, Micron Technology Inc., Microsoft Office
Research articles 2005-11-21
Analog Office Design Suite Wins LSI of the Year Award in Japan; Applied Wave Research's RF Analog Design Environment Selected at the Embedded System Expo & Conference in Tokyo
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWRR) a leading provider of high-frequency electronic design automation EDA tools, today announced that Analog OfficeTM design suite, a complete solution for next-generation analog and radio-frequency integrated circuit RFIC design, has been selected for the prestigious 2004 LSI of the Year Award....
Tags: embedded system
Research articles 2004-08-02
IBM, Westlake; CRSS designs for Big Blue. (New Corporate Design)
West of Dallas, on the Westlake end of the Solares office complex, the architecture firm Mitchell/Giurola's eight-building campus for IBM is the last word in 1980s corporate office design. But according to Scott Strasser, Dallas-based director of West of Dallas, on the...
Tags: IBM Corp.
Research articles 1989-08-01
AWR and Vector Fields Partner to Integrate Concerto EM Modeling Software into Microwave Office Design Suite; High-Frequency Designers Will Now Have Access to CONCERTO 3D EM Modeling Technology Directly from the AWR Design Platform
SAN FRANCISCO -- Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWRR), a leading provider of high-frequency electronic design automation EDA tools, and Vector Fields Ltd. announced today at the 2006 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium that they have integrated Vector Fields' ConcertoTM three-dimensional (3D) electromagnetic EM modeling software into AWR's Microwave OfficeR circuit...
Tags: Concerto Software, microwave, modeling, software
Research articles 2006-06-12
Bold beginnings: Douglas Fitch, furniture designer, creates his first environment for an executive at S.C. Johnson & Son. (Office Design)
Label it experimental. Historical justification for a more innovative approach to the design of this executive office was assured. After all, it was in the Racine, Wisconsin, S.C. Johnson & Son headquarters (you know, Frank Lloyd Wright/Johnson Wax). Actually, this office was not in a building...
Tags: S.C. Johnson & Son Inc.
Research articles 1992-03-01
Shrinking Spaces: Can Creative Design Take the Sting Out of Smaller Workspaces?
Article explains about the early '90s — back when the economy was tight and companies felt the squeeze of widespread downsizing? Maximizing office space became a bottom-line priority, and workers in all sorts of organizations found that their already impersonal cubicles were shrinking. By the late 1990s, the economy was...
Tags: Workspace, FacilitiesNet, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2000-08-01
Exposing the Elements: Unique Office Design Features Exposed Engineered Wood Products
Mike Corliss wanted the design of his new office building to showcase his company's trade. Corliss owns Investco Financial Corporation, a property management company, and also owns and operates a local truss manufacturing business. The 7,800-square-foot state-of-the-art office building in the rural community of Sumner, Wash. is a tribute to...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Product, Corliss, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Business Operations
Case studies
The New York Times combats office ergonomic problems.
The New York Times, one of the nation's largest newspaper employers, has been at the forefront of ergonomic office design and training since the early 1990s. The company's seven primary ergonomic initiatives have produced excellent results in reducin The New York Times, one of the nation's...
Tags: New York Times Co.
Research articles 2000-02-01
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