> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronn Blankenship
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 02:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Redesigning workplaces
>
>
> At 01:36 PM 6/6/02, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Richard Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 04:40 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Redesigning workplaces
> > >
> > >
> > > If you had a free hand to make any changes to your workplace
> > > (including the architecture, the available tools, the management
> > > structure, the methodologies, the atmosphere and so on),
> what would
> > > you change to make yourself happier and more productive?
> What things
> > > are being done just right and so don't need changing?
> >
> > comfy chairs, formed & adjustable desks, task lighting instead of
> >cruddy florec's, adequate HVAC that works,
>
>
> That condition will only be satisfied when every employee has
> a private
> office with an individually adjustable thermostat, plus
> outlets with enough
> capacity to handle space heaters, electric blankets, and fans
> brought from
> home (and no regulations limiting their use).
No, it takes efficient design of space and adequate controls rather than
drafty brick buildings with single thermostates located in an office
where the person opens the window all the time... ^_^
> IOW, last night, as at
> almost every other class meeting, some students (mostly male) were
> complaining that the classroom was too hot and stuffy, and
> other students
> (mostly female) were complaining that the room was too
> cold--in fact, I've
> actually had students leave at the mid-class break to go back
> to their cars
> to get a jacket or to their dorm rooms and return with a blanket.
Typical, but... why didn't they bring something to begin with?
> >and a closed space with a low ceiling - I'm tired of echos.
>
>
> How about the noise from the rest of the corral coming over
> the partitions
> separating the cubicles, or through the thin walls used in
> some so-called
> "private" offices?
I have a cube in a hallway with a fax machine and copier for the floor
within peripheral vision.. used primarily and almost exclusively by 3
blonde women who insist on discussing the latest Friends episode and
what their dot-com boyfriends bought them the night before.
-j-
GSV Grumpy Because He Stayed Up To Watch World Cup
