Designing the Future of Modern Work Spaces: Building a High-Performance Environment to Empower Human Collaboration
Despite 'Open-Plan' workspace having its stimulating collaboration and teamwork, it has many issues that trouble employees daily. Through the team’s research and analysis, we found out that noisy environments, lack of privacy, personalization, and health concerns are some of the major issues in an 'Open-Plan' workspace, and that workers of different job functions have different levels of dissatisfaction for 'Open-Plan' workspaces. Our design idea is a private/quiet space lookup system with real-time updates on the office spaces’ condition so that the workers can navigate within the office accurately based on their needs for privacy or quietness.
Project sponsored by: Microsoft
Project participants:
Ashwin Srinivas
MSIM
I Jou Wu
MSIM
Sejal Khatri
MSIM
Shreyas Gowda
MSIM