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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

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Researchers led by Vrije University Medical Centre in the Netherlands recently explored how looking at images of natural scenes and forms could improve feelings of wellbeing. This feature is taken from issue 7 of IN Magazine The post Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future appeared first on Workplace Insight.

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The words we borrow from other languages to talk about work and wellbeing

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And by comfort we don’t just mean ergonomic comfort, but also air quality, the right temperature, daylight, rest and freedom from interruption. Striking a balance It’s not just Europeans who offer us words we can find useful in office design and working like.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people. Seeing Red Does it matter what colour of font you use in your e-mail?

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