18 May 2012 Thoughts from the publisher of officeinsight & officenewsiwre
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill

Mysterious Cubicle Crud

4.4.06 | Washington Post | The reason I can't blog this morning is that I have just moved to a new cubicle and am totally out of sorts . . . . I don't want to be seen as a Work Station Complainer. Every office has people whose work stations are, at least in their imagination, killing them.. . . Changing workstations can be every bit as emotionally devastating as going through a divorce. There is a pervasive strangeness to everything. There are unfamiliar sounds, light hitting the eyes at an odd angle, peculiar vapors from a photocopier, plus the reorientation of the body with regard to magnetic North.

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Simple Retrofit Options Explored in Office Lighting Field Study

7.12.05 Lighting Research Center The Lighting Research Center conducted a field study to identify simple retrofit solutions that save lighting energy in open-plan offices while providing enough brightness to give workers a cheerful impression of the space. 

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Elevator Lighting Gets an Upgrade with LEDs

7.12.05 Lighting Research Center A recent field study from the Lighting Research Center demonstrated that LEDs can be effective, energy-saving alternatives for incandescent downlights in elevators. The field installation using prototype LED fixtures showed an energy savings of 45

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Tapping Consumers Early in the Product Development Process

2.9.05 Forbes Should companies let a bunch of amateurs design their products? Up to a point, yes. But they're doing it, letting customers put in their two cents on cars, insurance products, fast food, toys and appliances. Maybe it's an act of desperation, but they have concluded

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