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Monday, October 15, 2007

Free-range workers are healthier, happier and more productive says HP

A study of some 800 workers in the UK, conducted by HP with the help of The Mind Lab, compared working environments to see what impact it made upon productivity and health. The experiment was headed up by cognitive neuropsychologist Dr David Lewis, and involved the creation of a 'battery office' which simulated an environment where employees had to work using older IT equipment including slow PCs and bulky CRT monitors in small, cluttered spaces, and a 'free-range office' which gave workers the space and technology to have far greater freedoms about how and when they worked.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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