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Research Summaries

Why and How We Meet
About meetings--from face-to-face to telepresence--and how environmental conditions affect the flow of knowledge through groups.
The Outlook for Learning: Views on the Future
About 12 trends that will affect education and the opportunities they give colleges and universities willing to embrace them.
The Private-to-Open Spectrum
About getting the right mix, and taking a new perspective that provides different places to work and lets workers choose where they can be most effective.
The Evolving Nature of Working at Home
About the benefits and challenges of sending employees home to work and how good choices and proper tools can improve the experience.
Making Room for Collaboration
About how space design can promote collaboration by locating people logically, giving them ways to signal their availability, and encouraging interactions.
Making a Case for a Case Cart System
About the benefits of a case cart system, including appropriately deploying employees, standardizing inventory and instruments, and automating billing and ordering systems.
Home Sweet Office: Comfort in the Workplace
About creating a comfortable place--from its physical qualities to its support for work to the psychological aspects of controlling one's work and accessing nature.

Set Them Free: How Alternative Work Styles Can be a Good Fit
About the culture required to give people what they need to work in the way--and the place--that is best for them.
Everybody Deserves a Good Chair
About research into what makes a good chair and why it matters for people who sit down to work for long periods of time.
On The Move: How Mobile Employees are Changing the Workplace
About the productivity gains, facility savings, and environmental benefits that result from a mobile work model.
Embracing Boomers: How Workplace Design for Maturing Knowledge Workers Benefits Everyone
About using universal design to create environments appropriate for both older and younger workers.
Bright Idea: Personal Control for Office Lighting
About giving people control over their lighting so they are more satisfied, stay engaged in their work, and avoid fatigue.

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Maintaining Concordance as Seated Postures Change
How the Envelop desk allows person, chair, surface, and technology to remain in healthy alignment.
Promoting Healthy Movement and Natural Alignment
How the Embody tilt, building on earlier Herman Miller innovations, helps people work healthier.
Call Centers Find Their Voice
How call centers can make the most of expensive square footage while making individual workspaces appealing to agents.
Furniture Standards for Healthcare Facilities
How standardizing on modular furniture can help manage and fully use inventory while staying responsive to change.
Sitting Can Be Good for the Circulatory System
How the Embody chair lowers heart rate because of its flexible back, Pixelated Support system, and three-zone tilt.
Improving Oxygen Flow While Seated
How the Embody chair promotes the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body's tissues.
The Art and Science of Pressure Distribution
How a chair can be designed so that the sitter's body, not the chair, determines peak pressure areas.

Supporting the Biomechanics of Movement
How the Mirra chair's Harmonic tilt is designed to echo, or mirror, the natural pivot points of the human body.
The Evolution of Anthropometrics and User Control
How the Mirra chair achieves a single flexible fit design that does not sacrifice comfort.
Lean Healthcare
How Herman Miller products and consulting expertise can help hospitals put lean principles into practice in their environments.
Enriching the Learning Experience
How rooms can be designed and equipped to use digital media for collaborating in person and remotely in higher education.
The Attributes of Thermal Comfort
How a seating surface material that allows heat and moisture to disperse through it is said to "breathe."