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a private room set up across the hall with a comfortable reclining chair to help them decompress. The dispatch room itself is completely situated on a raised platform, which allows for all the wires, cables and other necessary components of the center to be housed beneath the work stations. This allows for a less cluttered environment while still providing technicians easy access to the equipment should something need to be replaced or maintained. “When we began designing the
dispatch center, we put together a team questionnaire for the dispatchers,” said Karas. “Each dispatcher was given the opportunity to fill out an operator’s point of view on the desire changes and the current functionality of their job.” She went on to say there is a desire to be able to increase the collaboration between workstations while maintaining stand alone or custom workgroup flexibility to fit perfectly in a command and Continued on page 3
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