TY - GEN AU - Nigel Oseland TI - Beyond the workplace zoo humanising the office SN - 9780367655334 U1 - 658.23 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Office layout KW - Work environment KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management N1 - Content Author biography xiii Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvi Introduction 1 1 Introducing the Workplace Zoo 3 Origins of the Workplace Zoo 3 A human-centric and evidence-based approach 8 Legacy workplace issues 11 A book of two halves 12 PART 1 Situation 2 Fascination with cost 17 The productivity equation 18 The value-cost conundrum 20 Property costs 22 Destination density 24 Quantifying the benefits 27 Cost-benefit analysis 34 Project evaluation 36 3 Psycho-what? 38 Early psychophysics 38 Environmental psychology 41 Spaces for people 43 Evolutionary psychology 46 Biophilia 47 Neuroscience 50 Anthropology and Dunbar's number 51 Motivation theory 52 Maslow 52 Herzberg 54 Personality theory 55 Temperaments and psychoanalysis 56 Trait theory 57 Sensory processing and multisensory design 64 Indusivity and diversity 66 4 The rise and failure of open plan 72 The route to open plan 72 Open plan versus private offices 77 Benefits of open plan offices 81 PART2 Solution 87 5 Introducing the Landscaped Office 89 A (re)emerging workplace solution 89 Humanising the office 92 Accommodating human needs 95 6 It's a jungle in there 101 Evolutionary psychology 102 Biophilic design 107 Building standards 114 7 A plan comes together 116 'Til desk do us part 117 A menagerie of work-settings 119 Concentration and confidentiality 120 Collaboration, creativity and connectivity 121 Contemplation and care 124 Core and common spaces 124 Planning the landscape 124 Workplace layout 124 Workspace zones 125 Work-settings 126 Bringing it all together 128 Look and feel J29 Reckoning occupational density 130 8 Choice, sharing and agile working 132 Types of agile working environments 133 Benefits and barriers to agile working 137 Advantages of agile working 137 Challenges of agile working 139 Work Patterns 140 Adoption of agile working 142 9 The great indoors 145 Acoustics and noise 146 Acoustic standards 146 Sound versus noise 147 Solutions for noise 147 Thermal comfort 155 Temperature and performance 155 Thermal comfort standards 156 Adaptive comfort 161 Solutions for thermal comfort 163 Indoor air quality 166 Indoor Air Quality regulation 166 IAQ and performance 167 Scents and odours 169 Solutions for air quality 170 Lighting and daylight 170 Lighting and performance 170 Lighting standards 171 Lighting and preference 173 Daylight and colour spectrum 174 Solutions for lighting 176 Design for all not just the average 177 Epilogue 179 10 Concluding remarks on the Landscaped Office 181 Part 1: Situation - Workplace Zoo 181 Part 2: Solution - Landscaped Office 184 Implementing the Landscaped Office 187 Beyond this book 188 References 191 Index 205 ER -