The commercial design sector is paying more attention to the connection between the design of workplaces and the health of those who work there. Commercial designers are encountering increased pressure to supply spaces and maximise productivity and performance, which also means paying attention to workers happiness and well being. From the temperature of the environment to the amount of light in the space to the placement of furniture configurations, designers are being expected to come up with ever inventive workplaces. Whilst many are taking the injection of fun as an approach to solving well being issues, with incorporation of, for example, bean bag areas, or game spaces, there is much more to it.
Interior designer, Deanna Hayko believes that performance comes down to encouraging engagement, with everyone playing a role all the way from design through real estate to business owner. This idea is supported by a recent study, surveying approximately one hundred and eighty million employees across one hundred and forty two countries, who found that just thirteen percent of worldwide employees feel engaged at work.
Their staff focused design included a space moving directly away from compartmentalized offices to where every employee works from the same desk, allowing ease of collaboration, and an environment that fosters a more democratic way of thinking. The refit also included a fitness area complete with suspended swings permitting both comfortable conversation space and reinvigoration of staff. Choice is another key factor in 'the user focused' workplace.
Hayko outlines three different aspects of choice that are related to employee well being: privacy, the work style and collaboration. Choice was also a topic in recent research by global architecture and design firm Gensler, who highlighted choice as consisting not just of physical placement of workers, but their ability to have control in their individual environment.
Hayko references the estimated three hundred billion dollar cost in the US from loss in productivity due to dress in the workplace in 2010, in explaining happiness as a direction of focus. Energy Project founder and CEO Tony Schwartz lists four core areas in terms of what creates employee happiness: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Interior designer, Deanna Hayko believes that performance comes down to encouraging engagement, with everyone playing a role all the way from design through real estate to business owner. This idea is supported by a recent study, surveying approximately one hundred and eighty million employees across one hundred and forty two countries, who found that just thirteen percent of worldwide employees feel engaged at work.
Their staff focused design included a space moving directly away from compartmentalized offices to where every employee works from the same desk, allowing ease of collaboration, and an environment that fosters a more democratic way of thinking. The refit also included a fitness area complete with suspended swings permitting both comfortable conversation space and reinvigoration of staff. Choice is another key factor in 'the user focused' workplace.
Hayko outlines three different aspects of choice that are related to employee well being: privacy, the work style and collaboration. Choice was also a topic in recent research by global architecture and design firm Gensler, who highlighted choice as consisting not just of physical placement of workers, but their ability to have control in their individual environment.
Hayko references the estimated three hundred billion dollar cost in the US from loss in productivity due to dress in the workplace in 2010, in explaining happiness as a direction of focus. Energy Project founder and CEO Tony Schwartz lists four core areas in terms of what creates employee happiness: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
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