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Here you can find articles and news about DORIS. Additionally, DORIS founder, Sam Julka, writes a regular column that’s published in the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ). We like to think of her as the Carrie Bradshaw of workplace columnists. Each of these columns deliver golden wisdom from the good, the bad, and the ugly that we at DORIS have gleaned from our many years engaging with employees through our research.
What Goes into a Workspace that Works?
We would love to know too!In January of 2021, DORIS (Design Oriented Research for Impactful Solutions) knew it was moving offices. Staying true to themselves, DORIS researchers conducted an internal...
Welcome your employee’s full being into the office
One day this summer, I had been in the office a few hours when I was startled by a small human with Heelys shoes rolling past my desk. I turned around and said to my colleague, “I had no idea your...
To rework your office space, take advice from Vanilla Ice
“Stop. Collaborate and listen.” I think Vanilla Ice had some great words of wisdom for some of today’s leaders when thinking about what to do with their office space. Well, he had it almost right; I...
Returning to Work? Your Office Needs a Refresh.
Can we go back? They say you can never go home again, or is it that you can never go to the office again? Think back to your late teens or early 20s, when you moved out of your parents’ house to go...
Stick to the basics to bring employees back
Can you remember the last time you were really excited to go somewhere? We have a lot of that pent-up energy right now as we all begin to reschedule vacations we canceled over the last several...
Celine Dion, the Pandemic & Understanding ‘Hybrid Workforce’
At DORIS, we have experts in the field all across the country. Hear from our Design Research Lead in Denver, CO, Megan Little as she talks about Celine Dion, the pandemic & understanding the...
Make 2022 the year of ‘we’ and collaboration
Let me start by telling you a story about me. Historically, the week that falls between the Christmas holiday and New Year’s Eve is dead airspace for office buildings. It’s the time of year when...
DORIS + DEI Blog Series: 3
We left off hearing Dr. Tiffany Polite’s wise words pertaining to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Were you as riveted as we, at DORIS, always are when she talks to us? We hang on her every word...
Draw conclusions, predictions from the unsaid
Abductive reasoning is using an incomplete observation to make the best prediction we can. My statistician colleague might give us a side eye when we write an insight based on abductive reasoning...