It is interesting how these apply to the kind of office I work in: the nurse's station of a hospital unit. Any attempt at a library ambiance is impossible with

It is interesting how these apply to the kind of office I work in: the nurse's station of a hospital unit. Any attempt at a library ambiance is impossible with today's medical equipment, the amount of alarms active at any time is staggering. Preferring written messages over voice calls is incentivized, but still needs work. You can page a physician, but almost always he will call back rather than respond in writing. Sometimes the physician will never enter the order into the electronic health record and so it needs to be entered by the nurse—that's an opportunity for error. Introducing friction is a good idea. The best places for drawing up medications are ones with doors, it gives a rare moment of silence. Unfortunately there's a culture issue, people will leave those doors open and try to talk to people busy in there. Newer-built units are much better spaces to work in, generally. They're larger and have these ideas in mind when built. It's rare when a tower can be completely demolished, however. New equipment fills older wings and staff have to squeeze past it.