Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Humans Staying the Same as Everything Else Changes
At Worktech17 in London there was a lot of talk about the future: future workplaces, future technology, future organizational structures, and so on, and on. All the discussion of what is to come wasn’t really surprising. We have an inherent curiosity about what’s next for us. What was intriguing was the way that material presented from the podium, whether it was shared in support of new products or was “product-independent,” recognized and respected the fundamental forces that have been driving humans for many an eon. As humans, our wellbeing and cognitive performance are best when we feel we have a reasonable level of control over our physical environment. That means we do well when we can modify our ambient conditions, such as the intensity of the lights and the ventilation in a space, for example. We can be overwhelmed when we need to make decisions about too many parameters, however. …
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