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More Companies Are Adopting Sensory-Friendly Practices—Here’s How Your Business Can Follow Suit 

Success

There can be large, crowded rooms full of cubicles and equipment, disturbing fluorescent lighting and bombardment with a wide variety of noises—coupled with less access to sensory-friendly resources and environments. Dell has a neurodivergent job application system, and Microsoft has a Neurodiversity Hiring Program , for example.

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Workplace design and the corrective force of rediscovery

Workplace Insight

In the case of Bob Propst’s Action Office, especially its second iteration from 1967, the original intention to create a workstation that would allow a worker to arrange a space to their needs almost immediately morphed into the cubicle farm that characterised North American offices for years.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

Success

Gerber, 38, now a serial entrepreneur and author of Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter , published in 2018, has become an evangelist for entrepreneurship, particularly for resourceful young go-getters who may not be cut out for life as cubicle dwellers.

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Joshua Jahani – Managing director of Jahani and Associates | Maximizing Your Financial Potential in the Future of Work

Allwork

And we’ve used engineering to do that, systems engineering. I’m dealing with a company right now that has all heavy equipment that does landscaping not landscaping, but does foundation creation and everything for large, massive things, earth Movers, that sort of thing. It’s more on the back end.

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

Allwork

At the Time, Americans had offices, private offices, and the notion that you would sort of work at a desk without a cubicle wall or something right next to someone else was strange to people, and it really pushed them. Many companies are saying, look, work wherever you want to work within our system. That was anathema.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

They each took the initiative to get appropriate training and education to better equip them in the areas they were interested in. They each had forward-thinking employers who allowed them to have vision and encouraged them to work towards their goal and made room for that new role within their organization.

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8 Tips For Establishing The Most Productive Office Environment

Small Business CEO

Many businesses will use individual offices or cubicles for their employees to work from. Staff in cubicles distract themselves more easily than staff in an open plan office. Sunlight has a direct effect on the bodies circadian system (this is the occurrence of regular chemical reactions in the body required for health functioning).