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WELL AT WORK
Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace
Drawing on her pioneering research on the impact of built environments on integrative health and wellness, Dr. Esther Sternberg shows how to design workspaces (at home, the office, or anywhere else) that enhance physical and emotional wellbeing.
Healthy workplaces need not be a luxury.
Staying healthy at work has been more top-of-mind than ever since the start of the pandemic. But staying healthy isn't the same thing as staying well. Staying well at work isn't just about masking, good ventilation, or removing toxins, germs, and allergens from the air. It's also about the many aspects of the environment that not only impact how we feel physically, but also our stress levels, our mood, our ability to focus, and our productivity.
Whether we work in a typical office building, our spare bedroom, or anywhere in between, Dr. Sternberg reveals how these spaces can be designed to support wellbeing across seven domains of integrative health - stress, sleep, movement, relationships, nutrition, spirituality, and the air we breathe.
For example, readers will learn:
- How the stress we experience during the day can impact our sleep at night.
- The optimal lighting and noise levels for preventing headaches and eye strain
- How the right temperature and humidity can keep us more alert
- Office layouts that can either stress or calm
- The myriad benefits of having views of or access to nature (and how to fake it if you don't).
In Well at Work, Sternberg takes readers along on her journey of discovery, as she uncovers surprising relationships between our physical environments, brains, and bodies. Readers meet her colleagues in science and medicine, design and architecture, and building sciences, who, along with agencies and policy makers, are striving to make workplaces more conducive to wellbeing. And, she offers a glimpse into the future of the workplace, where artificial intelligence and the metaverse will be used to design environments that respond to each of our individual needs.
Above all, she shows how each one of us can all adapt our own workspaces to be - and stay - well at work.
Dr. Esther M. Sternberg is internationally recognized for her pioneering discoveries in the science of the mind-body-stress interaction in illness and healing, and the role of place in wellbeing. Previously a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Sternberg has advised the World Health Organization; the US Institute of Medicine; the Royal Society, London; and the Vatican, and has briefed high level government officials including the Surgeon General, leadership at NIH, the Department of Defense, and the United States Congress. She is Professor of Medicine, Psychology, and Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona and the author of The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions and Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being, which re-ignited the design and health movement.
Staying healthy at work has been more top-of-mind than ever since the start of the pandemic. But staying healthy isn't the same thing as staying well. Staying well at work isn't just about masking, good ventilation, or removing toxins, germs, and allergens from the air. It's also about the many aspects of the environment that not only impact how we feel physically, but also our stress levels, our mood, our ability to focus, and our productivity.
Whether we work in a typical office building, our spare bedroom, or anywhere in between, Dr. Sternberg reveals how these spaces can be designed to support wellbeing across seven domains of integrative health - stress, sleep, movement, relationships, nutrition, spirituality, and the air we breathe.
For example, readers will learn:
- How the stress we experience during the day can impact our sleep at night.
- The optimal lighting and noise levels for preventing headaches and eye strain
- How the right temperature and humidity can keep us more alert
- Office layouts that can either stress or calm
- The myriad benefits of having views of or access to nature (and how to fake it if you don't).
In Well at Work, Sternberg takes readers along on her journey of discovery, as she uncovers surprising relationships between our physical environments, brains, and bodies. Readers meet her colleagues in science and medicine, design and architecture, and building sciences, who, along with agencies and policy makers, are striving to make workplaces more conducive to wellbeing. And, she offers a glimpse into the future of the workplace, where artificial intelligence and the metaverse will be used to design environments that respond to each of our individual needs.
Above all, she shows how each one of us can all adapt our own workspaces to be - and stay - well at work.
Dr. Esther M. Sternberg is internationally recognized for her pioneering discoveries in the science of the mind-body-stress interaction in illness and healing, and the role of place in wellbeing. Previously a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Sternberg has advised the World Health Organization; the US Institute of Medicine; the Royal Society, London; and the Vatican, and has briefed high level government officials including the Surgeon General, leadership at NIH, the Department of Defense, and the United States Congress. She is Professor of Medicine, Psychology, and Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona and the author of The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions and Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being, which re-ignited the design and health movement.
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Published 2023-09-05 by Little Brown / Spark |