Well at Work
Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 OWL AWARDS
Full of science-backed tips on how to design any workspace for physical and emotional wellbeing, “Well at Work helps us thrive wherever we work.” (Arianna Huffington)
Whether you work in a traditional office or a corner of your bedroom, staying well at work need not be a luxury. But wellness at work isn’t just about staying physically healthy; it’s also about reducing stress and improving mood, focus, energy, and productivity.
Well at Work reveals how to optimize our workspaces for wellbeing across the seven domains of integrative health: stress and resilience, movement, sleep, relationships, environment, nutrition, and spirituality, and even the air we breathe. You’ll learn: How the environment you work in all day can affect your sleep at night Optimal lighting and noise levels for reducing stress and improving focus How to adjust temperature and humidity to stay alert and protect against infection Why open-plan offices can keep you more active The myriad benefits of access to nature (and how to bring nature indoors) Office layouts that foster social interactions but not distraction Foods to enhance cognitive performance And more
Along the way, you’ll meet the scientists and doctors, designers and architects, and building science professionals who are striving to make workplaces more conducive to wellbeing. And you’ll glimpse into the future of the workplace, where artificial intelligence and the metaverse will help us create environments that respond to our individual needs.
Above all, you’ll come away with a menu of simple, “innovative, and often overlooked” (Dr. Richard Carmona) steps anyone can take to be—and stay—well at work.
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In this sensible outing, Sternberg (Healing Spaces), an architecture and medicine professor at the University of Arizona, offers guidance on making workspaces—either at home or the office—more comfortable and conducive to productivity by attending to the "seven domains of integrative health": "stress and resilience," movement, sleep, relationships, environment ("what you see and breathe"), nutrition, and spirituality. She contends that putting on quiet background music can make workplaces more relaxing, citing a study that found workers were most stressed in either loud or extremely quiet settings. Noting research showing that access to sunlight in the morning improves sleep quality and overall mood, Sternberg recommends workers sit near windows or else buy an LED sun lamp for their desk. The author highlights companies that have taken creative approaches to enhancing well-being through office design, writing that Google's Mountain View campus features multiple fitness centers to encourage exercise, which has been shown to stimulate creative thinking. The recommendations are bolstered by illuminating research, and Sternberg keeps a welcome emphasis on practicality (for workers whose offices don't feature a fitness center, she suggests that just getting up and moving around once per hour can be beneficial). Equally applicable to home and corporate office spaces, this valuable guide has much to offer.