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The Source for Solutions
New ways to work, new challenges • Totally mobile • computing • Cloud storage More mobile workforce Pressure to reduce real estate cost and carbon • footprint per employee
• Increasing collaboration both on projects and documents
Major Challenges
• Accommodating multi-generational workstyles –Millen • Are multi-taskers • nials Prefer e-mail or IM to face-to-face
• conversation • Not easily phased to by noise commotion Less prone backor problems –Older • and other ailments • Tend to be more linear
generations Prefer phone or in-person conversation
• • Need more focused concentration work areas More prone to back problems • Require more light to see
Ergonomic Challenge #1
• Ergonomically, laptop computers force bad posture and should not be used at a desk all day long.
Ergonomic Challenge #2
• Under-desk Storage
– LEED-mandated lower heights have led to storage
based systems with low open bookshelves.
are back injuries waiting to happen!
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Ergonomic Challenge #3 in Open Plan cuts both • Sound – ways Distracting
to many people
–For newer employees, good way to disseminate collective knowledge through overheard
conversations –For managers, good way to catch mistakes being made
Ergonomic Challenge #4
• Light and energy usage –As
we age we require t geometrically more light o –see Light us 26 o avera offi build pow ing es % f ge ce ing er
Age 20
Age 60
Laptop Use Response
• Treat the laptop as a CPU or monitor at most – Separate keyboard and mouse: Goldtouch Go is small, light and protected to fit in laptop bag – Raise monitor height with thin riser
Continue to provide adjustability
• At the office, even at unassigned desks,
provide at least some that have keyboard trays and larger monitors on arms with easy plug-in for laptop without docking.
Sit or Stand
• Give people the opportunity to work standing up as well as sitting down. Even without a treadmill, standing can help users lose substantial weight over the course of a year, as well as relieve back pain.
AE Computer Ergonomic Resources
• We work extensively with both Humanscale • •
and Workrite, as well as Chief, Innovative, ISE, ESI and others We carry our own branded ergonomic product as we source directly from CompX, the largest OEM manufacturer We carry our own lines of electric height adjustable tables, plus SIS, Mayline and others
Sound Attenuation Resources • Acoustic workstation panels • Sound masking system: Lencore Spectra
Lighting Resources
• LED Ambient lighting:
– Waldmann moveable ambient lighting with occupancy sensor and daylight harvesting sensors
Lighting Resources
• LED Task Lighting
– Newest under-bin and swing arm options from Workrite, Humanscale, Waldmann & Luxo
Panel and other Modular Systems Tayco Cosmopolitan combined with UP
Artopex Air
Fluid Concepts
Collaborative Video Huddles
• SIMO Corp IMT: Interactive Media Technology
Moveable Walls • Alur Glass • Starwall
Challenge: Seating
• If people are moving around and sitting and standing, what chairs will fit?
• ANSWE R:
Simple, flexible and supportive