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Open-Plan Offices: Comparison of Methods for Measuring Psychoacoustic Intelligibility Parameters
The acoustic conditions of open-plan office spaces influence the well-being and productivity perceived by users. However, with an inadequate evaluation of the workspace, acoustic design in open-plan offices can be a factor that alters user performance ...
María P. Serrano-Ruiz +3 more
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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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OBJECTIVES: This aim of this study was to (i) examine differences in risk of subsequent disability retirement between employees working in cellular, shared, and open-plan offices and (ii) determine the contribution of gender, skill-level, work ability ...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Descriptive data of the total study sample and those located in private/shared offices or open-plan offices before relocation to activity-based offices.
David M. Hallman (10321066) +3 more
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Comfort Distance—A Single-Number Quantity Describing Spatial Attenuation in Open-Plan Offices
ISO 3382-3 is globally used to determine the room acoustic conditions of open-plan offices using in situ measurements. The key outcomes of the standard are three single-number quantities: distraction distance, rD, A-weighted sound pressure level of ...
Valtteri Hongisto, Jukka Keränen
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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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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 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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