All posts by Sally Augustin, Ph.D.

Bergefurt and colleagues studied the experiences of people working from home, finding that work-at-home experiences were much like those in ...

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Goel and colleagues evaluated workers’ experiences in various sorts of workspaces.  They report that “Data from 225 office workers were ...

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Klotz and colleagues studied the implications of employees experiencing outdoor nature after spending a day at work indoors.  They determined ...

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Zhang and colleagues link air temperature and perceived indoor air quality in university classrooms; it seems likely that their findings ...

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Mustafa and Ali reviewed published studies to learn how workplace design can encourage people to use stairs instead of elevators.  ...

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A number of particularly meaningful and useful studies related to workplace design were published in 2022. Appel-Meulenbroek and colleagues studied ...

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Ayoko and teammates reviewed how office noise influences employee mood (affect), which is particularly important because more positive moods enhance ...

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Neuroscience research makes natural light seem like a magical substance, one that we just can’t consume too much of (as ...

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Verdugo and teammates’ work highlights previously unreported ramifications of having selected something over something else.  They share that they “designed ...

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Research by Fauville and colleagues in the virtual world is likely relevant in real life also.  The investigators evaluated “the ...

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Something that seems to get lost in discussions of hybrid work arrangements is the fact that not all employees who ...

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Winet and O’Brien add to our understanding of when familiar options will be selected instead of novel ones.  The researchers ...

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