Our Literature
Commercial Market
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Commercial Spaces Idea Book
An office should be more than just a place to work. We believe in creating environments that empower. Empower your people to work better, smarter, safer, and happier. This idea booklet focuses on products that reflect the needs of twenty-first century working environments.
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Humanscale
Humanscale designs and manufactures ergonomic equipment to boost the comfort and safety for employees in virtually any environment. Their diverse product range helps ensure that individuals who spend hours each day in front of a computer, do so in maximum comfort and with minimal long-term health risks. At Humanscale, they strive to design products that combine uncompromising function and honest aesthetics with ultimate ease-of-use. |
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Everybody Deserves a Good Chair
But what is a good chair? For almost 100 years now, researchers have been trying to answer that question. This research summary examines their work and tries to establish whether they have reached any significant conclusions. |
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Vision and the Computerized Office
In the past, concern for worker safety primarily involved avoiding accidental injuries or deaths from hazards in the factory. Today, with the office as the most common work setting, attention has turned toward subtle but still serious health problems associated with office work, especially musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) that result from activities as varied as awkwardly reaching over and over again to
carrying a laptop and other materials from meeting to meeting. |
Educational Market
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Educational Idea Book
The learning environment has changed dramatically over the past ten years. This idea booklet was designed to help create effective learning environments to promote both informal and formal learning activities while supporting the administrative and day-to-day operations. |
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The Changing Campus
The buildings that form a campus help create the legacy of that institution. They make impressions. Buildings that are centuries old communicate tradition and an established lineage of alumni. Contemporary facilities communicate a spirit of growth and a sense of optimism for the future. Businesses have discovered the importance of communicating brand and image in their quest to increase market share. Higher education is no different in this respect. |
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Environments for Learning
Although the physical setting is only one aspect of organizational climate that affects work and learning, it is perhaps the most concrete expression of corporate values and priorities. Organizational development specialist Fritz Steele notes that the physical setting can be an important component of a climate that “stimulates people to develop new skills, abilities, knowledge, and understanding so that they grow in competence.” A learning organization provides physical environments that reflect the importance of learning to the organization and that encourage and support learning wherever it takes place: in the classroom, on the shop floor, in the individual workstation. |
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Creating a Culture of Sustainability
Second Nature, an organization that developed the Education for Sustainability program, asks, “What if higher education was to take a leadership role, as it did in the space race and the war on cancer, in preparing students and providing the information and knowledge to achieve a just and sustainable society? Imagine the societal impact that higher education could have if, as a sector, it incorporated sustainability principles and practices into fundamental decisions about purchasing, building design, and operations. |
Healthcare Market
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Healthcare Idea Book
Healthcare environments require products that are flexible, functional, & aesthetically pleasing. This brochure displays products that meet these challenging requirements. |
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Primed for Injury
Tomorrow’s office worker is today’s student. Observing this digital generation of children, teens, and young adults and its use of computers, games, hand held electronic organizers and games, mobile phones, and television remotes, the question arises: What impact are these behaviors having—and will have—on the next generation of office workers? What is the potential for a future increase in computer-related injuries as the first members of the digital generation enter the workforce? |
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Body Support in the Office: Sitting, Seating, and Low Back Pain
Clerical workers stood on the job until around the middle of the nineteenth century. When employers concluded that their workers might be more productive in a seated position, people began to sit at the office. Today professional-level office workers spend about 70 percent of their time sitting in their offices, usually for 45 minutes at a stretch. Deskbound workers such as telephone operators, telemarketers, and data entry workers spend nearly 100 percent of their working time sitting. |
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Ideas for Healthcare Environments
Herman Miller Healthcare, Nemschoff, Brandrud, and Foxxman outfit entire hospital and outpatient facilities, from lobbies to surgical services, from patient rooms to laboratories. We are a family of brands that collectively offer the broadest product portfolio in the healthcare furnishings market. Our healthcare offering is strengthened by Herman Miller’s portfolio for office, conference, and training areas, including systems, storage, freestanding furniture, and award-winning seating products. Adding to this offering is Geiger and its line of fine office and conference furnishings as well as a number of alliance partners. |
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