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Office design and occupational health – has research been left behind?

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2023
Tens of millions of workers in Europe work in office environments. Such a physical environment might seem fairly harmless compared to the exposures of many other work environments.
Annu Haapakangas, David M Hallman, Eva L Bergsten   +2 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, Joko Sarwono, Zulfi Aulia Rachman   +2 more
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Workplace productivity and office type: an evaluation of office occupier differences based on age and gender [PDF]

, 2017
Purpose Open plan office environments are considered to offer workplace productivity benefits because of the opportunities that they create for interaction and knowledge exchange, but more recent research has highlighted noise, distraction and loss of ...
Allen T.J., Barry Haynes, Bartlett M.S., Bodin Danielsson C., Cattell R.B., Child D., Clements-Croome D.J., Cohen J., Dunbar K., Fanger P.O., Hair J.F., Hongisto V., Latour B., Lister T., Louise Suckley, Mark G., Nathan M., Nick Nunnington, Oseland N., Oseland N., Rummel R.J., Samani S.A., Smith J., Tabachnik B.G., Wineman J.D.   +24 more
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Acoustic Issues in Open Plan Offices: A Typological Analysis

Buildings, 2018
This paper reports the acoustic issues of open plan office environments. According to a detailed research based on the scientific literature of the most suitable acoustic descriptors recommended for the open plan offices analysis, the main typological ...
Sara Delle Macchie, Simone Secchi, Gianfranco Cellai   +2 more
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Office design, telework from home, and self-certified sickness absence: A cross-sectional study of main and moderating effects in a nationally representative sample

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2023
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate (i) the main effects of office design and access to telework from home (TWFH) on self-certified sickness absence and (ii) the moderating effects of access to TWFH on the relationship ...
Randi Hovden Borge, Håkon A Johannessen, Knut Inge Fostervold, Morten Birkeland Nielsen   +3 more
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Acoustic comfort in open-plan offices: The role of employee characteristics [PDF]

, 2019
Purpose – This paper aims to determine the extent to which employees’ experiences of acoustic comfort, well-being and productivity in open-plan offices are determined by specific characteristics (including demographic information, task characteristics,
Haynes, Barry, Lee, P. J, Park, S., Roskams, Michael   +3 more
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'The creation of the Monnet Plan, 1945-46: a critical re-evaluation' [PDF]

, 2017
Drawing on an extensive range of French archival sources as well as Jean Monnet’s papers, this article challenges several commonly-held views regarding the establishment of the Monnet Plan by re-examining the domestic political context in post-war France.
Brunet, Luc-Andre
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The impact of office design on medically certified sickness absence

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the impact of three different office designs (cellular office, shared office, and open-plan workspace) on the risk of medically certified sickness absence and the number of days, respectively, of ...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Stein Knardahl
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Sickness absence and sickness presence in relation to office type: An observational study of employer-recorded and self-reported data from Sweden.

PLoS ONE, 2020
OBJECTIVES:Previous research suggesting that open-plan office environments are associated with higher rates of sickness absence rely on self-reports which can be affected by recall bias.
Loretta G Platts, Aram Seddigh, Erik Berntson, Hugo Westerlund   +3 more
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An Example Approach for Taking of Auditory Comfort as a Design Parameter in Open Planned Offices

Megaron, 2020
Noise audit is extremely important in creating an auditory environment suitable for the actions of users in volumes. On the other hand, due to the physical properties and functions of the volumes in certain buildings such as an open-plan office ...
Semran Özdem Gürtürk, Neşe Yüğrük Akdağ   +1 more
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