Health and wellbeing for the workspace

A well-designed work environment, capable of responding to the needs of those who work there, has a positive effect on working well-being, influencing the productivity of the individual and the group, promoting quality relationships both within the group and with customers. This implies coordinating various activities, from identifying the furnishings to preparing the lay-out, starting with an analysis of the individual company that considers all its aspects, both quantitative and qualitative.

Adequate design of work environments plays an important role in ensuring high levels of organizational well-being also in terms of productivity and performance.

It is of vital importance to verify the influences on a psychological level, an area in which the main datum is how the workers interpret the characteristics of these spaces, and therefore the implications on their behavior, considering that probably what affects is not just an element, but the combination of various elements, the total configuration of various characteristics.

And finally, the importance that physical space plays in the communicative and collaborative exchange between the members of a company should be considered. Space therefore understood as a "means of communication" that must reconcile the individual's need for privacy, with the need to increase and facilitate communication between workers, social and collaborative relationships. This requires an analysis that takes into account different aspects and needs, individual and collective, in a dynamic relationship as the personal space of the individual changes according to the relationships established with others in the various contexts.