Workspaceology: Optimizing the 21st Century Workspace
Course Description
With multiple generations in the workforce, employees have unique and diverse needs. The perks that work for baby boomers don’t excite millennials, and researchers are still on the quest to understand the work preferences and mindset of Gen Z.
This course will seek to educate specifiers with tips and tricks to harness the workspace to improve employee health, well-being, and productivity by giving employees and employers alike the tools people need to thrive.
This will be achieved by exploring the topic of Workspaceology–the study of workplace design, form, and function that translates into customizable approaches to maximize flexibility and personal choice, catering to generations of today as well as the future.
Learning Objectives
Examine current U.S. workplace trends and identify the elements impacting the ways people work differently today.
Discuss how to properly assess a work environment to improve productivity and well-being.
Identify proper ergonomic solutions to help mitigate the risks associated with poor work tools and posture.
Explore how to infuse movement and variety into the workspace to help employees customize the environment to their needs, maximizing the health benefits to employees and employers alike.
IDCEC Units: 0.1
CEU Number: CEU-108829
Designation: Health, Safety, Welfare
Learning Level: Basic
Subject Code: 3. Interior Design Education / 1. Instruction
For the CEU Presentation bibliography, click here.
Routine Hacker: Infusing Movement and Variety into a Static Workplace
Course Description
This CEU will educate specifiers on why movement and variety are key elements of a healthy, happy workplace and discuss human-centered solutions for productive, dynamic work environments of the future.
Learning Objectives
Explore the evolution of U.S. workspaces, looking at how jobs have become increasingly more sedentary in nature.
Discuss the implications that extensive work hours and less activity have on the human body, leading to health issues for employees.
Identify the solution to sedentary work (and life) behaviors and look at ways workspaces can help solve for these needs by designing movement and variety into the workplace.
Explore the benefits to employers for implementing active work spaces.
Look at what the future might hold in terms of striking the right balance between productive static work and dynamic active postures.
Course Content Outline
IDCEC Units: 0.1
CEU Number: CEU-108813
Designation: Health, Safety, Welfare
Learning Level: Basic
Subject Code: 3. Interior Design Education / 1. Instruction
For the CEU Presentation bibliography, click here.
