The potential of high-performance workplaces for boosting worker productivity, health, and creativity: A comparison between WELL and non-WELL certified environments (2023)

This recent Australian research conducted in high-performance workplaces compared WELL and non-WELL certified spaces, with occupants in WELL certified spaces more satisfied with 20 out of 23 physical environment features. Visual privacy and access to the outdoor environment were key predictors for productivity, and layout and interior design for creativity

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Q&A Blockbuster: Creating spaces that enhance employee wellbeing

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The role the built environment can play in employee wellbeing has never been more evident or important. And without question, COVID-19 has raised the stakes. In this Q&A Blockbuster with Ken Fong, Acoustics and Healthy Buildings Consultant, Arup we discuss how putting employee wellbeing at the heart of design as we navigate the future of work will be key, including how the WELL Building Standardā„¢ can help create spaces that enhance – rather than hinder – employee wellbeing.

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Another day NOT at the office: How to design thriving workspaces for work and home

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It’s fair to say hybrid working is here to stay. The genie is out of the bottle so to speak. So, what does this mean from a workspace design perspective? How do we entice employees back to the office and for what purpose? And why are some workplaces still reluctant to embrace a more flexible and agile way of working? (ā€œbut it worked so well beforeā€ they say).

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Wellbeing – whose responsibility is it anyway?

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A leaders’ wellbeing has a direct impact on their teams’ performance – and the organisation’s bottom line. Successful organisations rely on having healthy, resilient and high performing leaders. This webinar explores what responsibility leaders can reasonably be expected to take for their team’s wellbeing and how practitioners can help leaders optimise wellbeing for their people.

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Influencing Behaviour Change – Enhancing Health & Wellness through Workplace Design

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This webinar uncovers how your workplace environment can be guided by your overall corporate strategy, but more directly your health and wellness strategy, to create spaces that influence behavioral change.The discussion is supported by research touching on neuroscience, diversity thinking and evidence-based findings of recent case studies.

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