Pittsburgh-based Davison Inventionland is one of the most creative offices in the world; its 61,000-square-foot factory houses 16 themed workspaces fitted with waterfalls, castles, racetracks and more. Founder George Davison designed the work environment solely to foster employee creativity, and his efforts have paid off: the factory turns out...
New research indicates that to suss out the most creative ideas in a brainstorm session, you're better off letting things percolate for a few minutes before writing anything down. Simone Ritter and colleagues at the Radboud University Behavioral Science Institute studied 112 university students in two separate experiments,...
Yesterday, Jon Mitchell of ReadWriteWeb wrote about how the Palo Alto City Library is turning vacant rooms into coworking spaces for remote workers and advertising them using LiquidSpace. Can this model boost flagging local economies elsewhere? Some remote workers love coworking because it blends a quiet, isolated workspace with the...
Ridiculously Efficient readers are familiar with efficiency strategies like working in spurts, leveraging Parkinson's Law and managing decision fatigue; this list of unconventional productivity strategies shares novel ideas to boost effectiveness. Productivity-Enhancing Office Practices * Does Your Office Need a Thinking Day? * 5 Management Strategies to Enable Efficiency * 3...
Barry Glassman of Glassman Wealth Services pays for every employee to spend one day each quarter out of the office thinking up ideas to benefit the company in what's called a Thinking Day. Could such a practice benefit your office? At GWS, Thinking Days had a restorative effect...
This Mercer work-life balance infographic shares additional insights from its annual What's Working survey -- namely, that workloads are heavier, and employees consider flexible work arrangements as essential to their motivation and engagement. Women are more likely than men to prioritize the ability to work flexibly (71 percent...
