What Workplace Designers Can Learn from Higher Education Facilities
by Sandi Rudy and James Foster The typical pre-pandemic office design won’t get a passing grade in the workplace of the future. But there is hope for more positive performance marks. One path to improvement and getting knowledge-worker workplace design marks up from a hopeful C to a resonant A+ is to look to higher education facilities to glean valuable insights from what is working well there. The U.S. Department of Education points to data collected before and during the pandemic confirming that in-person learning results in improved academic outcomes, greater levels of student engagement, higher rates of attendance, and better social and emotional well-being. Translation: remote learning is not holistically optimal. This begs the question, what about remote work? Are these findings being applied to our workplace environments? As the workforce has become increasingly more remote, the leading discussion has focused on engaged employees and methods for sustaining productivity. …
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