Office Furniture Maintainability
We design many spaces for organizations of all kinds, including corporate offices, educational institutions, hospitals, hospitality venues, and government offices. Our clients have often spent a lot of time thinking about how their new furniture will look, feel and function
Technology-Enabled Furniture
Do You Want Power with That? Although technology-enabled furniture has been around for decades most of these solutions focused on the management of power and data within workstations, desks and tables. It wasn’t that long ago we were first asked, “Can
Choosing the Right Company, as Important as the Right Furniture?
- The people here at Pacific Office Interiors have long known that POI was a special place to work and build a career. That’s because it’s a company that truly believes in a work-life balance for all its employees, especially
Determining Lumbar Support in Task Seating
Lumbar Support The Human Performance Institute at Western Michigan University (WMU) conducted a laboratory study to determine the location and magnitude of lumbar support that a user requires for his/her lower back while sitting in a task chair. Click the image below
Competing Values Framework
The Competing Values Framework was developed initially from research conducted by University of Michigan faculty members on the major indicators of effective organizational performance. Click the image below to read the full article.
Are Gen-Y’s Brains “Modular” or “Unconscious”?
Many people assume that younger workers can process information in fundamentally different ways than their older counterparts. This paper reviews research relevant to that assumption and explores the association between office design and communication styles. Click the image below to read
Environment conditions and job satisfaction
The current research explores details about satisfaction with lighting and views and the nature of the link between environmental satisfaction and job satisfaction. Click the image below to read the full article.
An Easy, Effective, and Useful Measure of Exterior View
Haworth has developed a new, simple way to measure the quality of exterior view from within office environments. Particularly, views of nature outside office buildings are important contributors to the occupancy quality of employees. This technique involves four easy steps
Building a Transformation
As President of Pacific Office Interiors, one of my primary objectives is to make sure our brand and promise resonate with both our current business model and vision for the future. This has been a significant effort during the past
Physical Space and Social Interaction
This topic demands an interdisciplinary focus since an adequate synthesis of the scientific information available includes at least the fields of architecture and interior design, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and geography. Although reaching consensus across such a diversity of theoretical orientations