Beyond the Workplace Zoo: Humanising the Office

ISBN-13: 9780367655327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str.

Nigel Oseland

Opis

Beyond the Workplace Zoo offers high-level pragmatic guidance on office design that meets basic human needs, drawing on the fields of psychology anthropology, sociology and zoology.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Introducing the Workplace Zoo  Part 1: Situation  2. Fascination with cost  3. Psycho-what?  4. The rise and failure of open plan  Part 2: Solution  5. Introducing the Landscaped Office  6. It’s a jungle in there  7. A plan comes together  8. Choice, sharing and agile working  9. The great indoors  Epilogue  10. Concluding remarks on the Landscaped Office

O autorze

Dr Nigel Oseland is an environmental psychologist, workplace strategist, change manager, researcher, international speaker, lecturer and published author with 11 years research and 23 years consulting experience. In his consulting business, he draws on his psychology background and his own research to advise occupiers on how to redefine their workstyles and rethink their workplace to create working environments that enhance individual and organisational performance and deliver maximum value. Nigel lectures on two masters' degrees at The Bartlett, UCL, one on space management and the other on wellbeing in buildings. He is the programme advisor and a regular speaker at the Workplace Trends series of international conferences. Nigel regularly presents at international (academic and corporate) conferences on designing workplaces that enhance performance and wellbeing. He made a TEDx talk in 2018 on How We Can Create Unique Workspaces and introduced the concept of the Workplace Zoo.