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Turning the Mirror on the Architects: A Study of the Open-Plan Office and Work Behaviors at an Architectural Company [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Following the rising cost of real estate and a desire to increase collaboration and communication among employees, the open-plan office has been trending over the past decades.
Dorota Węziak-Białowolska +2 more
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Open‐plan Offices: Kill or Cure? [PDF]
Facilities, 1992 Describes how the communicational and economies‐of‐scale advantages of open‐plan offices are lost when working groups have to endure uncomfortable and uncontrollable environments resulting from lack of consideration of their needs at the planning stage and from management and maintenance deficiencies thereafter.
Haynes, Barry
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Perception of Water-Based Masking Sounds—Long-Term Experiment in an Open-Plan Office [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 A certain level of masking sound is necessary to control the disturbance caused by speech sounds in open-plan offices. The sound is usually provided with evenly distributed loudspeakers.
Valtteri Hongisto +7 more
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Effect of self-adjustable masking noise on open-plan office worker’s concentration, task performance and attitudes [PDF]
Applied Acoustics, 2017 The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of workers in an open-plan office towards concentration, task performance and co-worker interaction when wearing earphones with masking noise and when not wearing earphones.
Miles Richardson
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DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE OF HORIZONTAL LIGHT PIPE BRANCHING ON OPEN PLAN OFFICE SPACE [PDF]
Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2015 For daylighting purpose, office buildings should have a shallow plan and increase the ratio of surface to building’s volume. However, intensive use of air-conditioning drives office building’s plan to be deep with a minimum surface to volume ratio.
Feny ELSIANA +2 more
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SAGE Open, 2021 A high percentage of information-based work is now conducted in open-plan offices as opposed to traditional cellular offices. In this systematic review, we compare health, work, and social outcomes as well as employee outcomes for workers in the two ...
Olivia James +2 more
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Benefits of quiet workspaces in open-plan offices – Evidence from two office relocations [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2018 Abstract The problems of open-plan offices are widely known. However, the factors explaining these effects have received less attention. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of office distractions in the emergence of other problems, and to examine the benefits of quiet workspaces in open-plan offices. Two organizations moved from private
Annu Haapakangas, Valtteri O Hongisto
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Computational studies of speech intelligibility in open-plan offices
Medycyna Pracy, 2019 Background Noise in open-plan offices, connected with an unintentional hearing of conversations and related distraction of attention, causes annoyance of employees.
Witold Mikulski
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Acoustic conditions in open plan offices – Pilot test results
Medycyna Pracy, 2016 Background: The main source of noise in open plan office are conversations. Office work standards in such premises are attained by applying specific acoustic adaptation.
Witold Mikulski
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ROOM ACOUSTIC DESIGN IN OPEN-PLAN OFFICES
8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, 2023 In a Nordic cooperation project the acoustical conditions in open-plan offices was investigated. Measurements have been carried out in five open plan offices accompanied with an inquiry gathering the subjective judgments by the staff. A program for the acoustical measurements was designed specifying how to perform the measurements and which type of ...
Nilsson, Erling, Hellström, Björn
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