Human beings are complicated creatures. You know that, but does your workplace design survey know it?
What Workers Need vs. What They Say in Surveys: 3 Big Differences
November 4, 2019
by Meghan McDonald
How to design survey questions that reveal how people really work
October 9, 2019
by Meghan McDonald
How do people really work? When you’re designing an office environment, understanding this can seem like a holy grail of insights—powerful and elusive. (Learn five reasons so many workplace design surveys don’t help you reach that understanding.)
Top 5 Reasons Your Workplace Design Survey Isn’t Giving You the Whole Picture
September 24, 2019
by Meghan McDonald
Architects, interior designers, how often do you survey your client’s workforce to get the data you need—and then you end up relying on prior experience or resorting to educated guesses to create the best office environment for them?
Innovative Workplace Design Starts By Asking The Right Questions
August 14, 2019
by Catherine Porth
In the first two articles, we discussed that the dominance of digital screens in our work and private lives is already “here and now” as opposed to being for the “future workplace”. We also explained that most screen-enhanced workspaces can be considered unique because the function of those spaces is truly in the eyes of the beholder, or in this case, the worker.
In this article, we want to share the strategy we take when designing workplace design surveys. Specifically, why we ask the questions that we do and the insights we’re able to capture by taking an indirect questioning approach.
The Screen-Centric Future Workplace—a Partnership with Work Design Magazine
July 23, 2019
by Dr. Jian Huang
Together with our research partner Work Design Magazine, we conducted a survey to learn more about what screens tell us about how people really work. Between May 14th–31st 2019, 368 of you participated in our research. Here is part one of the results!