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A factory here, a few decades ago spend 150 k to select a color scheme for maximum productivity. No one believed in it but one investor insisted because he used
by 6510 3y ago
A factory here, a few decades ago spend 150 k to select a color scheme for maximum productivity. No one believed in it but one investor insisted because he used the service before and the consultant had a lot of numbers to show.
50 cm above the floor the wall had 6 washed out grayish colored bars 20-25 cm width with green and orange slightly brighter. I didn't notice a productivity gain but it did allow excellent peripheral vision.
- jbscpa 3y ago"above the floor the wall had 6 washed out grayish colored bars 20-25 cm width" Were the bars vertically oriented or horizontally oriented?
- 6510 3y agohorizontally, all around the lunch room and hallways
- bluGill 3y agoAt least one study was done that concluded the real effect wasn't from the change, it was the expectation that people were being measured. You could change in any direction and get the same results - repeated across different companies which in turn mean some left what another went to - and both got similar gains.
- MengerSponge 3y agoThis features prominently in one of my most-quoted sitcom episodes: Better Off Ted's "It's Nothing Business, It's Just Personal" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459081/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459081/ "I worked so hard so that this exact thing wouldn't happen"
- Xorakios 3y agowhat's a cm? inquiring US minds want to know!
- 6510 3y ago1/1b of the distance between the North Pole and the equator.