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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

Workplace Insight

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. Mankind is usually playing catch up with these things, and so we are increasingly able to understand the principles of how and why nature does the things it does.

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

Workplace Insight

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. In fact it fits me staggeringly well, may have been made to have me in it!’

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

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. Sometimes a better way to communicate would be picking up the phone or meeting someone face to face.

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