When the open office did away with cubicles, it also did away with the three types of privacy in the workplace (not counting personal privacy of course): visual, territorial and acoustical. … [Read more...]
Creative Alternative For Traditional Enclosed Offices
Some industries require a certain level of privacy in their offices, thus the need for walled offices. But not anymore. Professionals who usually have enclosed offices can enjoy the benefits of the … [Read more...]
3 Key Acoustic Strategies For Patient Satisfaction and Retention
Hospitals, by nature, are noisy. The type of walls, floors and furniture materials necessary for easy disinfection have hard, sound-reflecting rather than sound-absorbing surfaces. Add to that the … [Read more...]
A Quiet Place: How Too Much Quiet Hurts Worker Productivity
Silence still fosters better concentration, if not for the negative aspect of magnifying intermittent speech and in consequence, the complete loss of speech privacy. Silence is more associated with … [Read more...]
Real Estate Savings: How to Properly Maximize Your Office Space
North Dallas is in a huge commercial real estate growth. Office construction in Dallas is now second only to New York City and had even beaten NYC in the number of pre-leases by more than 10%. Office … [Read more...]
5 Cost-Effective Office Design Improvements
Maximizing your office real estate by adding function instead of square footage doesn’t have to mean compromising on your other investment: your employees, their health and productivity. You only need … [Read more...]
Solving the Top 10 Productivity Killers at Work
The open office makes everyone visible and therefore accountable to each other. Yet, while social media use, gaming, and personal internet browsing are eliminated, other productivity killers take … [Read more...]
Confidentiality: How Does Your Office Design Measure Up?
For hospitals, disguising speech and guarding patients’ personal information is not just a matter of doctor-patient confidentiality, it’s the law. For businesses, the cost of distraction is already … [Read more...]
Sound Masking and Panels: 4 Tips for the Open Office
If the workplace studies are right, your employees hate your open office - they're just not telling you. The downsides of the open office revolve around three things: lack of control in the working … [Read more...]
Why Libraries Need Cutting-Edge Sound Masking
Cozby Library continues to roll out new additions and amenities (the popular drive-thru book drop-off, self-service checkout, catalog tablets, among others!), and more are still to come, like digital … [Read more...]
