September 9, 2005—Gensler, the architectural firm, recently released the results from a study showing that poorly designed offices could be cutting UK productivity by a fifth, costing British business up to 135 billion pounds every year.
The research also highlights the relationship of office design to job satisfaction, recruitment and retention with four out of five professionals considering the quality of their working environment very important to job satisfaction and more than one third stating that the working environment has been a factor in accepting or rejecting a job offer. Gensler’s white paper, titled [ital]These Four Walls: The Real British Office [unital] report is based on a survey of 200 middle managers in the UK’s legal, financial services, and media sectors.
To download an executive summary of the report, visit the Gensler Web site.
For the full survey results, send an email. Include your name, address, and company in the email.
