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18 Results for White Papers
Building Wellbeing Into the Workplace: White Paper
Organizational wellbeing made tangible: space, furniture and tools designed to nurture individual wellbeing. Companies are pursuing organizational wellbeing with an enthusiasm never seen before. It seems the right thing to do for employees, plus there’s the potential for…
Taking the Edge Off Work – An Ergonomic Study: White Paper
A soft-edged worksurface reduces the risk of injury and can help people feel better while they work. Recent research confirmed that soft edges on worksurfaces ease pressure on the forearms by distributing the load over a larger, more…
How Place Fosters Innovation: White Paper
Innovation is the “secret sauce” of business success, according to Harvard Business Review.1 Consulting giant McKinsey says that a company’s ability to innovate has become “the core driver of growth, performance, and valuation.”2 Today nearly everyone agrees that innovation…
Movement in the Workplace: White Paper
How a palette of posture makes for healthier, more-engaged workers.
Tags: wellness, white paper
Financial Round Table summary: White Paper
By Design: New Solutions for Financial Services Workplaces Peers from some of North America’s largest financial services institutions met at Steelcase to collaborate about the complex issues they face and to explore how principles of design thinking can…
New-Gen workers in India & China: Reshaping Their Workplaces & the World: White Paper
As residents of the world’s hottest centers of economic growth, young people in India and China are breaking new ground while surrounded by traditions. Providing the best workplaces for these workers starts with understanding what their generation is…
Tags: Gen Y, Workspace Futures
Leap Productivity and Health Impact Study: White Paper
In a year-long study people who received the Leap chair and office ergonomics training achieved up to a 17.8% increase in productivity Leap makes a measurable difference in two separate health and productivity studies As the number of…
Tags: Seating
Brand, Culture and the Workplace: White Paper
Which comes first — the culture or the brand? Steelcase WorkSpace Futures In today’s hyper-connected, ever- flattening world, it’s almost become a question not worth asking. Coexisting in a chicken/egg, yin-and-yang relationship, an organization’s brand and culture shape…
Tags: Brand & Culture, Workspace Futures
How the Workplace Can Improve Collaboration: White Paper
Converging spatial, social and informational trends are creating demand for workplaces that support new patterns of collaboration. Steelcase WorkSpace Futures Converging spatial, social and informational trends are creating demand for workplaces that support new patterns of collaboration. Collaboration…
Tags: Collaboration, Workspace Futures
Benching: An Idea Whose Time Has Come… Again: White Paper
The workbench is being reinvented, and it’s not “one-size-fits-all.” Understanding worker needs is key to creating the right bench solution. The workbench is an enduring workplace tradition, for many good reasons. It’s simple, efficient, straightforward and adaptable. From…
Tags: Benching, Innovation, Workspace Futures
Supporting New Patterns in Hotel Workspaces: White Paper
Steelcase Research Insights Overview by Steelcase WorkSpace Futures The tough economy has hit the lodging industry hard and caused hotels to renew their focus on revenue and profitability. An important segment is the business professional. In fact, frequent…
Tags: Workspace Futures
A New Legal Brief: White Paper
As the legal industry evolves, its work environments require new approaches. by Steelcase WorkSpace Futures, in conjunction with Steelcase wood As a nation of laws, the U.S. has always depended on its lawyers. But today the legal industry…
Tags: Collaboration, Innovation, Workspace Futures
Emerging Work Strategies: White Paper
How Emerging Work Strategies are Changing the Workplace Telecommuting was just the beginning Alternative work strategies, which break the paradigm of an assigned office space for every worker, have been around since at least the early 1990s. For most companies, alternative…
Tags: How People Work
Sustainability Comes of Age: White Paper
What got us thinking… Environmental sustainability is important. Practically everyone agrees with that, despite varying levels of understanding about environmental issues and different levels of commitment to them. The larger issue is how to define sustainability. The word…
Tags: Sustainability Spotlight
The Designer’s Role in Sustainability: White Paper
Interior design doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It is an integral part of any building construction or renovation project. Building interiors are fitted with materials, products and systems from a network of raw materials that stretches around the…
Tags: Sustainability Spotlight
The Enterprising Private Office: White Paper
Private offices have changed little over the last century. Four walls, a double ped desk and credenza, a desk chair and a guest chair or two. Yet while the private office has been fixed in place, most everything…
True Value of Space: White Paper
When calculating the value of office space many organizations are taking into account not only first and life-cycle costs, but also the business results, like how much time is saved having access to the right tools, worker satisfaction,…
Tags: How People Work
Organizing Chaos: White Paper
Shaping order from chaos: designing effective spaces for the ways people work. Designing effective office spaces can bring a company a competitive advantage, particularly if those spaces are created based on original research that indicates six primary information,…
Tags: How People Work
