Work Space

Long hours at a desk can leave your muscles feeling stiff and sore, especially if you are working in the same position or making repetitive motions. Add poor posture and muscle stiffness, and these annoying ailments could compound and create severe pain or even permanent injury. So it’s easy to see why studies say “sitting is the new smoking.” But...

  Open office plans are trending in workplace design, and due to their flexibility and unlimited variations, most companies prefer them to traditional designs. Open offices are cheaper to build, furnish, and maintain than traditional office spaces, and they also promote spontaneous collaboration and innovation that cubicles and closed doors can’t match. Despite their ingenuity and popularity, these open office...

  Creating an office plan is a daunting task, especially when moving into a new office and starting from scratch. With so many factors to consider, it’s tempting to consider only costs and neglect the psychological factors of workplace design. Open-office plans are a new workplace design trend thanks to their adoption by tech giants and trending companies. But these...

When it comes to your health, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Benjamin Franklin actually coined that phrase in reference to fire safety in 1736, but it applies to health and wellness in the modern world just as readily. Employee wellness programs stem from this very philosophy. Employee wellness programs seek to improve employees’ health, increase...

The cubicle walls are coming down across America as open offices rise in popularity. In 70 percent of U.S. offices, employees sit in the open, facing each other and their tasks in a corporate effort to improve transparency, productivity, and teamwork. No longer confined to four beige walls, employers and employees are discovering the benefits of open offices — but...