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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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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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Influence of partition layouts on speech privacy in open-plan offices
Heliyon, 2023 Different partition layouts were compared to determine how to increase speech privacy while maintaining communication efficiency between workers in an open-plan office. A preliminary survey was used to determine current usage and conditions of partitions
Seung-Min Lee, Chan-Hoon Haan
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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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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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The Importance of Office Layout for Employee Productivity
Dinamika Pendidikan, 2020 This study was conducted to explain the impact of open and enclosed plan office layouts on employee productivity. The subject area for this study was in Amanah Saham Pahang Berhad (ASPA).
Nurbarirah Ahmad +5 more
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Comparative analysis of window operating behavior in three different open-plan offices in Nanjing
Energy and Built Environment, 2021 Research on the window operating behavior of offices is of great significance for reducing building energy consumption and improving indoor comfort. The open-plan office is a common office form that involves a large number of people and a complex staff ...
Jiawen Ren +6 more
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A modified technique to predict speech privacy and distraction distances in open-plan offices
ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2023 Open-plan offices have become widely adopted in various industries as a workplace environment. However, this office layout type suffers from speech privacy, which can be represented by the acoustic parameter known as the Speech Transmission Index (STI ...
Sentagi Sesotya Utami +2 more
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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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PLoS ONE, 2020 Over the past few decades many corporate organisations have moved to open-plan office designs, mostly due to financial and logistical benefits. However, recent studies have found significant drawbacks to open plan offices and it is unclear how office ...
Jegar Pitchforth +3 more
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