Employers Have Been Offering the Wrong Office Amenities
Workplaces need fresh air, not foosball tables and coffee bars. Read More »
What Makes an Office Building “Healthy”
As employees return to offices, the authors suggest a framework companies can deploy to keep people safe without crippling their businesses and our economy, as well as a series of indicators to measure their progress. Read More »
Is Staying In Safe?
Indoor life has its dangers, too, but building-design specialists have big plans for us. Read More »
We Need to Improve Indoor Air Quality: Here’s How and Why
Upgrading buildings’ ventilation, filtration and other factors would not only decrease COVID transmission but also improve health and cognitive performance in general. Read More »
Healthy buildings can help stop Covid-19 spread and boost worker productivity
Any C-suite executive looking to lure workers back into the office has likely spent more time thinking about indoor air quality and ventilation over the past year-and-a-half than at any other point in their pre-pandemic life. Read More »
Better ventilation would create a healthier workplace — but companies have to invest
A growing coalition of epidemiologists and aerosol scientists say that improved ventilation could be a powerful tool against the coronavirus — if businesses are willing to invest the money. Read More »
The office monitor workers will find more common in the Covid era is surveilling the air
Harvard professor Joseph Allen says there’s one safety measure offices can’t overlook. Healthy workspaces rely primarily on the air employees breathe, and research going back years before the pandemic shows that improvements in air ventilation and air quality lead to increased cognitive function and work productivity. Read More »
Wash the air, not (just) your hands
A better solution, for Covid and other ailments: improved ventilation — bringing more outside air into buildings and better circulating air. And filtration — cleaning the indoor air. Many, if not enough, schools and businesses have adopted them. And they work in all kinds of buildings, from homeless shelters to high-rises. Read More »
New federal ventilation guidelines mark next step in fight against COVID
It's the first time such a standard has been created at the national level. Read More »
See JPMorgan Chase’s big bet on the future of the office
Deepak Chopra and Harvard’s Joseph Allen helped shape this 60-story tower. Read More »