The impact of the physical workplace on behaviors and attitudes at work is a much-studied topic. Major research streams over the last decades investigated either satisfaction with offices in relation to physical comfort, or how layout decisions ...
Kerstin Sailer +2 more
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A modified technique to predict speech privacy and distraction distances in open-plan offices
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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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine whether shared and open-plan offices are associated with more days of sickness absence than cellular offices.
Jan H Pejtersen +3 more
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The Role of Personal Control in Alleviating Negative Perceptions in the Open-Plan Workplace
Today’s office buildings adopt open-plan settings for collaboration and space efficiency. However, the open plan setting has been intensively criticized for its adverse user experiences, such as noise, privacy loss, and over cooling.
Zhonghua Gou, Jian Zhang, Leigh Shutter
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Does Personality Have a Different Impact on Self-Rated Distraction, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance in Different Office Types? [PDF]
This study investigates the joint effect of office type (cell, shared room, open-plan, and flex) and personality, measured by the Big Five personality traits, on self-rated measures of distraction, job satisfaction, and job performance (measured by ...
Aram Seddigh +3 more
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The Rise of Office Design in High-Performance, Open-Plan Environments
This study aimed to identify key drivers behind workers’ satisfaction, perceived productivity, and health in open-plan offices while at the same time understanding design similarities shared by high-performance workspaces.
Christhina Candido +2 more
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An Example Approach for Taking of Auditory Comfort as a Design Parameter in Open Planned Offices
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 +1 more
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Workspace satisfaction and work behaviour of computer systems managers [PDF]
Inspired by the equivocal findings of different studies and acknowledging the dynamic nature of relation between situational factors and human behaviour, this research explores the association between satisfaction with psychosocial features of work space
Kovačević Ivana, Čizmić Svetlana
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Satisfaction with indoor environmental quality in BREEAM and non-BREEAM certified office buildings [PDF]
This paper presents preliminary analysis of occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality in Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) and non-BREEAM certified offices in the UK.
Altomonte, Sergio +3 more
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Effect of self-adjustable masking noise on open-plan office worker’s concentration, task performance and attitudes [PDF]
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.
Richardson, Miles, Vassie, Ken
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