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As 2016 comes to a close, IIDA wishes its members a safe and happy holiday season. To help you reflect on the past year, we're providing the readers of Spectrum a look at the 20 most-accessed articles from the year. This week we're sharing numbers 20 through 11. Our regular publication will resume on Thursday, Jan. 5.
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Fast Company
From June 30: Behind every sun-soaked, pristine architecture or design office, there's a design philosophy linking desk layout and succulent placement to employees' creativity. But as design writer Rob Alderson points out in the new book, "The Creative Workplace," creativity is difficult to explicitly define, and the creative process varies widely from person to person. So how do you design an office that will aid in the creative process for a group of individuals?
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The Washington Post
From June 23: Office space design is undergoing a period of experimentation. Some of the ideas have been transformative, such as the adaption of open office design, co-working spaces, and environmentally friendly materials. Today begins a local experiment of another idea: Outdoor offices. The Peterson Cos. development firm opened a 20-seat outdoor space in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, featuring desks, chairs, electrical outlets, and wireless internet service aimed at coaxing employees typically chained to their desks or cubicles to go outside.
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Fast Company
From Feb. 11: Although "Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work" is still an official day meant to give kids a glimpse into what mommy and daddy do, supporting one structured day doesn't automatically create a family-friendly work culture. It takes commitment from leadership and support from both employees with and without kids. But there are rewards to be reaped. Plenty of employees look beyond their paychecks for job satisfaction. Wildbit, a company that makes software for developers and designers, recently expanded their workspace in Philadelphia and designed it with both staff and their children in mind.
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Fast Company
From Jan. 28: It takes extraordinary effort to make theme parks believable. To be believable, they must be immersive. To be immersive, they must be technologically sophisticated. But make them too sophisticated, and they're no longer believable. The best theme parks use technology as a means to an end, freeing visitors to become joyously lost in the moment. They feel simple, intuitive, and magical. Understanding how theme parks enchant visitors could help us redesign some of our most important social institutions — like hospitals, schools, and other environments — that have become mind-numbingly tedious.
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Entrepreneur
From May 12: In today’s highly competitive business climate, companies of all scales, sizes, and maturity levels need to maximize the ROI they are pulling from their workplaces. For fast-growth companies with highly mobile staff, they may need a workplace that infuses adaptable, technology-rich environments so people can do their work whenever and however they need. For organizations that bring clients into their offices frequently, creating a space that communicates brand and leaves an impression is key.
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The award-winning Acrovyn Wall Panel system provides designers the opportunity to reset their standards with extensive new design selections that install in half the time previously required. With new trim and edge options, panel depths and endless finishes, designers can create unique spaces that are protected and easily maintained.
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MarketWatch
From April 7: As employees have expressed a desire to move throughout office spaces during the day and choose how and where they work, experts in office design say they have seen a shift in traditional workplace designs in the last several years. It's a move away from a rigid structure, in which employees are assigned to individual desks and expected to stay there, and a push toward giving them options. The result: More employers are turning to practices known as "hoteling," "hot desking," and "free address" that typically allow workers to choose their desks for a particular day, or even a portion of the day.
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Forbes
From April 28: The workplace of the past is gone. We are now talking about homing from work, not working from home. The most recent Leesman Index was released in November 2015 and shredded many myths about the physical work space. It found that there is no difference on how work spaces impact gender and that age does have an impact, but it is not generational. The report also showed that natural lighting is preferred over artificial, informal areas are more effective, and other important factors. However, one-dimensionally planned spaces never work.
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Chicago Tribune
From June 2: A Ping-pong table and W Hotel-style furnishings don't guarantee that an office is a meaningful space for employees. Office design crimes can take many forms – from too-bright lighting to squeezing employees into a too-small space. But mistakes can go deeper than furniture and carpet, even as firms devote money to upgrade their surroundings.
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Fast Company
From May 5: Design-minded companies typically flaunt their cred through inventive and wildly creative offices. Of course, this requires a certain amount of space – and capital – to achieve. But before a business gets big enough to achieve a dream build-out, it probably started off with just a few people in a small, scrappy, temporary space. But according to Stefan Diez, an industrial designer based in Munich, that doesn't mean small offices shouldn't be well-designed and stocked with thoughtfully considered furniture.
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Bradley's new HS-Series Terreon® solid surface undermount basins have a clean, flat bottom design that maximizes basin capacity for general handwashing or multi-purpose use that also meets ADA guidelines. Five basin choices and dozens of colors provide design flexibility. Ideal for use in healthcare and general commercial applications.
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Harvard Business Review
From May 26: Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. Increasingly, people are rediscovering the value of quiet and focus and are asking for spaces where they can concentrate. In fact, collaboration and quiet are two ends of a continuum with a range of in-between work modes – each with an optimal setting. The best way to identify these is to identify everyday work patterns and micro-moments that correspond to office design decisions.
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