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Threesixty Magazine: Harder Working Spaces
Steelcase Inc.
June 2010

The workplace has never had to work so hard. It has to maximize use of real estate, attract and engage workers, communicate company brand and culture, and foster collaboration and innovation. In this issue we offer insights from designers, architects, and Steelcase researchers on how to plan these harder working spaces; noted business author Roger Martin discusses design thinking and how it can help; and, in our special NeoCon 2010 section, we feature the Steelcase family of showrooms and new products that can help create harder working spaces. Working harder just got easier.

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Extreme Makeover for the Private Office
by Mike Firlik

What image comes to mind when you think about private offices? For many people, it’s a huge double-pedestal desk with a
high-back chair, a credenza behind it and maybe a bookcaseoff
to the side.

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No Missing Pieces:
A Holistic Approach to Green Purchasing
by Deborah Dunning and Rosamund Zander
Interiors & Sources May 2008

A desire to go "green" so often arises only as we seek ways to stave off climate change within a framework of urgency. The result is that we overlook the enormous opportunity that this shift in consciousness provides: a new economic landscape. It is one that is likely to produce a more equitable pattern of wealth based on our willingness to look holistically at the economic, environmental, and social justice impacts of the ways we design, make, select, use, and dispose of products.

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The Walkstation by Details
It's no secret that in today's society the increase in obesity is driving up healthcare costs and driving down worker productivity.   Dr. Levine's N.E.A.T. research suggests that increased physical activity among sedentary workers may benefit the workplace environment and increase the overall health, focus and productivity of a workforce that is typically desk-based. And that's precisely what the Detail's Walkstation promotes: a workplace in which burning calories, stress-relief and other benefits of walking slowly seamlessly enhance the full-range of responsibilities that are traditionally handled in a seated manner.

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NCIDQ: The Enduring Workplace - Sustaining Change
By Carol Jones
Interior Sources June 2007

Imagine changing your socks once every 14 days ... putting on a clean shirt every 90 days, or donning fresh pants once a year. Not only would the odor emanating from your cubicle drive others away, you would be quickly ostracized as a stagnated soul.

Yet, when you consider the speed of technological advancements, corporate organizational transformations and facility modifications, a similar scenario occurs regarding change in most office settings. Technology appreciably changes every 18 months, while most major corporations undergo substantive business change every three years. The work environment fundamentally changes only once every 10 years, typically coinciding with a lease expiry. Adding fuel to the fire, an entire new generation enters the workforce every 15 to 20 years, and base building revitalization occurs about every 40 years.

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The Green Standard.org 1: Vision of Regeneration
By Deborah Dunning and Rosamund Zander
Interior Sources June 2007

What significant headway can one person, as a professional or in his or her personal life, realistically make against the rising tide of global warming? This is, for many of us, the most compelling question today. The 2030 Challenge advances an inspiring goal, yet many of us who are willing to sign on in principle find ourselves overwhelmed and in uncharted territory.

There is an arena, however, in which everyone associated with the building industry can make a huge contribution-even though it has received relatively little attention so far-as it relates to the creation and use of sustainable building products.

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