To foster wellness and enhance user experience, the Allsteel | Gunlocke Showroom utilized WELL Building Standard practices to improve key components that have the greatest impact on the health of our visitors—indoor air quality, access to clean water, natural light, healthy foods, and the promotion of fitness, comfort, and mindfulness.

Defining and measuring the effectiveness of a workplace designed to readily support changing technology, work processes and the workforce will require identifying and adopting new performance metrics that will be used in addition to the workplace performance metrics used today.

While mobility can take many forms, we have established a reliable approach to defining and designing a mobility strategy that will effectively support your organization’s work processes, people, and culture.

Many people have recognized the power our workplaces hold over our daily actions and interactions, and perceptions about our work. However, it is not broadly understood how our workplaces shape our behavior and what these insights might mean for knowledge worker performance. An expansive approach to the workplace is required to go beyond what is physically known, to the science behind the factors that influence our everyday experiences.

A global research review has uncovered six key factors that have the highest statistical association with the performance of teams: social cohesion, perceived supervisory support, information sharing, vision and goal clarity, external outreach, and trust.

Moving out of closed offices into open plan is one of the more difficult workplace changes to make, since it often also has political and emotional issues tied to it. 

Efficiency vs. Effectiveness. We believe that these two goals don’t have to be an “either/or” – instead, they’re way more successful when they’re “both/and.”