Productivity and the environment.
This article discusses the problem of how management can improve the productivity by exerting a closer control over the working environment, so that people suffer less from stresses, for example, as noise, loss of sleep, heat or cold. Laboratory tests alone cannot hope to predict quantitatively the impact of such stresses on the shop floor and in the office; they may, however, be able to indicate in more general terms the kind of shop floor or office which would most benefit from a field study.
Wilkinson
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Medical Research Council, Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge.