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Office Design Can Affect Productivity, Study ShowsThe physical design of workplaces around the world has long been a point of humour and frustration for employees, depending on their outlook, but new research suggests that different office designs can significantly help or hinder productivity in the workplace.
Tim Welsh, an assistant professor in the faculty of kinesiology at the University of Calgary, recently published an article in the Journal of Human Movement Science based on an experiment he carried out with graduate students that shows the design of office workspaces and proximity to co-workers, can play a big role in how much - or how little - you get done in an average day.
"You can't ignore the social benefits of having an open environment where people just feel better like they're not locked into a little closet," says Welsh, "but when you're actually looking at performing tasks, having other people performing tasks around you creates the opportunity for these interference effects to develop."
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