Future Office

Chapter 5Wellbeing

Nicola Gillen, Hilary Jeffery and Charlotte Hermans

Introduction

More than just the absence of illness, wellness and wellbeing are complex and increasingly important factors in the workplace. In recent years, concerns about health and wellbeing have marched up the agenda as topics of equal and urgent interest to designers, employers and employees. For the purposes of this book, our focus is on wellbeing as a desirable level of comfort for people to work well.

The impetus for this focus comes from a number of sources, but at its core is the fact that a happy worker is generally an engaged and productive worker – and ...