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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 the top 10. Our regular publication will resume on Thursday, Jan. 5.
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Fortune
From May 19: Invented in 1950s Germany, the idea of creating a workspace free of dividing walls only took off in the U.S. within the last decade, spreading from tech startups to more established industries such as advertising, media, and architecture. By tearing down literal barriers, the thought was that creativity and productivity would skyrocket, but it didn’t exactly play out this way.
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Forbes
From March 17: Tech startups have become famous for their "cool" office spaces replete with “adult toys” like climbing walls, razor scooters, and ping-pong tables. But how can companies strike the right balance between creating a fun, collaborative office space and one that is too lax and distracts employees from being productive? While there are no hard and fast rules, there are some sensible guidelines that once can follow.
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The New York Times
From March 3: For a century or more, office design has been our most useful metaphor for workers’ frustration. The color-sapped tedium of office life runs like a flickering current through the warrens of white-collar fiction — from Bartleby impassively facing his brick wall to Frank Wheeler caged in his dark cubicle in "Revolutionary Road." The fluorescence, the screens, the fabric-wrapped plywood dividers: They're demoralizing, humiliating.
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Fast Company
From Feb. 4: In 1999, the movie "Office Space" lampooned the ubiquitous grey office cubicle. Fast-forward more than a decade and a half later, and tech companies are more likely to look like sleek open warehouses with lines of workstations and Aeron chairs or standing desks.
But a combination of fast-moving technology, backlash against open-space floor plans, and other factors are influencing the office of the future. Looking forward to less than a decade from now, experts believe offices will undergo some changes, both in how they look and how people collaborate. The good news is that more companies and designers are paying attention to worker experience.
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Fast Company
From Oct. 27: Decades ago, the symbol of executive success was a lavishly tufted leather throne. That all changed in 1994 when Herman Miller released the Aeron, a sleek, ergonomic task chair intended for CEOs and administrative staff alike. Its innovations – numerous adjustments that let the chair conform to a user, engineered textiles, and flexible support – made it an instant icon. And it's not just the design establishment that vaunted the chair; it became a pop-culture icon, appearing in a handful of shows like "30 Rock," "The Simpsons," and "The Office." Herman Miller recently announced a re-engineering of Aeron, but when your seat is worthy enough to be God's throne, why mess with success – and how?
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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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Fast Company
From July 28: Regardless of your stance on unpaid pitching, the bottom line remains the same: Many potential clients, especially here in the U.S., will request unpaid "trial" creative work from advertising or design agencies when deciding with whom to work on a project or an account. A "no-pitch" policy might be an agency's preference, but it's tough to actually execute. So how can you implement a no-pitch policy and stay competitive?
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Fast Company
From March 31: Office chairs that adjust to your body based on biofeedback. Walls that slide, shift, and change color according to worker needs. Three-dimensional printers that produce food and replicate office supplies. These are some of the possibilities in the "office of the future." Plusnet, a U.K. Internet service provider, interviewed a dozen futurists and office design experts about the office circa 2030. The consensus is that workspaces generally will become more flexible (to accommodate different types of employees), more collaborative (this is the way work is going), and more natural.
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Metropolis
From Nov. 10: Relinquishing the traditional bathroom model is daunting, since individual toilet rooms can significantly increase costs through additional plumbing, ductwork, ventilation, partitions, doors, and hardware. New restroom designs many times require additional space, trigger further ADA compliance, and invalidate some USGBC LEED points. Moreover, school districts typically have limited budgets, established facilities, and deep-rooted social practices. Which is why the initiative shown by Grant High School in the Portland Public School District has been so extraordinary. In 2013, the school had 10 students who openly identified as transgender. To help combat the real possibility that they would drop out due to a perceived lack of safety, administrators designated four student bathrooms and two staff bathrooms – each individual rooms with a toilet, sink, and mirror – as gender-inclusive.
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The Wall Street Journal
From Oct. 6: Noisy, open-floor plans have become a staple of office life. But after years of employee complaints, companies are trying to quiet the backlash. Many studies show how open-plan office spaces can have negative effects on employees and productivity. As a result, companies are adding soundproof rooms, creating quiet zones, and rearranging floor plans to appeal to employees eager to escape disruptions at their desk.
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Fast Company
From Aug. 4: If you learned that you could increase your productivity by almost 50 percent by making one near-effortless change, you'd probably try it. But at what point would you question whether the advice was too good to be true? A recent study from Texas A&M University found that employees who used sit-stand desks were 46 percent more productive than those at traditional desks. Major news media ran with the eye-catching stat, and readers gobbled up the information, believing they, too, could be wildly more productive if only they had the right desk. Unfortunately, the research was far from a slam dunk, as Dr. Jack P. Callaghan, a professor at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo, explained. "There was no randomization of the workers," he said, "and there were no historical performance data as a baseline."
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