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The need for ergonomics expertise in office design

✍ Scribed by Walter B. Kleeman Jr

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Weight
306 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6870

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✦ Synopsis

By referring to recent evidence that office workers are being made more aware of the inadequacies of their workplaces, and that they are recognising these deficiencies themselves, the gap between what is commonly done in office design and what is now required is exposedβ€’ From examples the author suggests how this gap can be efficiently closed and what work is necessary to achieve this closure.

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