Complex Ergonomic Workstation Assessment

Workplace Design Ergonomics Consultancy

We are a workplace design consultancy that creates designs based on the understanding of human behavior. Our research based approach focuses the design around wellbeing and productivity.

Morgan Maxwell use the scientific discipline of Ergonomics and Human Factors when designing workplaces.  Utlising Ethnographic and other research methods we ensure your workplace design is based on research not just peoples opinion.

The complexity of modern organisations requires workplace designs to consider the physical, social and psychological elements to ensure areas within your design that affect wellbeing and productivity are taken into account.

Our scientific approach to workplace design can be applied to:

• New office designs
• Workplace redesign/refurbishments.
• Call Centers
• Control rooms
• Industrial Ergonomics/manufacturing environments.

Design process

• Clarify goals and requirements
  A partnership approach is adopted to ensure we understanding your goals and requirements.
• Organisational and behavioural insights.
  Using Ethnographic and other research methods we look to understand how your employees actually work, how they solve problems and how they work within their teams.
  We investigate what areas within your current design affect organisational wellbeing and productivity.
• Develop and test conceptual insights
  Insights gained from organisational and behavioral insights allow us to test our findings.
• Environmental measurements and standards
  Acoustics, thermal and lighting design elements are taken into account at the earliest possible stage to ensure high levels of wellbeing and productivity.
• Workspace planning & system design
  The design is based on findings from our research based approach to ensure the working environment is designed around your organisation.

Our approach/thinking

Wellbeing and Productivity

The wellbeing and productivity of your staff is one of the key metrics that affect the bottom line.

Part of the International Ergonomics Association definition of Ergonomics is to optimise wellbeing and system performance.

Our workplace design process investigates what parts of the design affects the subjective wellbeing of your staff/employees. We consider the physical, social and phycological elements of the system/design to ensure your design promotes wellbeing and productivity.

Our unique approach allows us to provide your organisation with a wellbeing score before and after the design phase.  Cost benefit analysis is also available to make the business case if required.

Cost benefit analysis

Making the business case is sometimes the key to funding for a new workplace design.

Morgan Maxwell have the knowledge and skills to provide the cost benefit and economic analysis of any new workplace design.

Activity based agile working

Our Ergonomics and Human Factors research approach allows us to understand the needs and requirements of your employees/staff. Data collected from our research enables the design to cater for different kinds of work and wide range of human capabilities.

Our designs focus on flexible working environments. As your organisation and technology changes so should your workplace.

Collaboration and concentration (Images yes)

In recent years, there has been a focus on open plan offices with the main goal of promoting/facilitating collaboration.

If too much focus is placed on collaboration it can be at the expense of concentration. Employees who are unable to concentrate due to distractions can be vulnerable to increased presenteeism and reduced wellbeing.

By understanding human behavior, your workplace can support collaboration and concentration.

Ethnographic research approach (Images yes)

Ethnography is a research method used within the social sciences. Unlike traditional forms of market research that use specific questions, Ethnographic research aims to understand how your employees actually work, how they solve problems and how they work within their teams.

Data is collected by a combination of detailed interviews and observations. Our goal is to understand how your teams work across multiple channels, their behaviors, needs and goals.