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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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Evaluation of the Workplace Environment in the UK, and the Impact on Users’ Levels of Stimulation [PDF]

, 2013
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a number of recently completed workplaces in the UK. The first aim is to assess the impact of various aspects of the workplace environment on users’ levels of stimulation.
Abdou HG, Baron RA, BCO, Bell A, Birren F, Brill M, Bromley AKR, Chiles WD, CIBSE, CIBSE, CIBSE, CIBSE, Cohen R, Colquhoun WP, Davis MC, de Dear RJ, Duffy F, Egan D, Fanger PO, Folkard S, Grossauer E, Heerwagen JH, Helander MG, Hildebrandt G, Kaplan R, Kroemer KHE, McKeown C, Newsham G, Oseland N, Oseland NA, Preiser WFE, Roscoe JT, Rose M, Russell Bernard H, Sacre P, Sharland I, Vernon MD, Wright A   +37 more
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Differences in Occupants’ Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity in High- and Low-Performance Offices

Buildings, 2019
This paper reports the results from a dataset comprising 9794 post-occupancy evaluation (POE) surveys from 77 Australian open-plan offices. This paper specifically focuses on a sub-set of 20 offices (n = 2133), identified from ranking 10 offices each ...
Özgür Göçer, Christhina Candido, Leena Thomas, Kenan Göçer   +3 more
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Collaboration in open-plan offices [PDF]

, 2016
Many organisations have adopted open-plan offices, rooms with few barriers between desksthat are shared by more than four people, to facilitate collaboration, productivity, and innovation.Yet researchers have found that open-plan offices do not consistently promote positive outcomes,and are often associated with unintended consequences like conflict ...
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Speech levels in open plan offices

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2001
A key variable for predicting speech privacy in open offices is the level of speech used. Since the environment influences vocal effort, speech levels needed to be measured in typical open office situations to more accurately calculate speech privacy in such offices. This paper describes measurements of voice levels used in face-to-face conversation in
Warnock, A. C. C., Chu, W. T.
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The relationship between office type and job satisfaction: Testing a multiple mediation model through ease of interaction and well-being

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2018
OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study investigated the associations between office type (cellular, shared-room, small open-plan, and medium-sized open-plan) and employees’ ease of interaction with coworkers, subjective well-being, and job satisfaction ...
Tobias Otterbring, Jörg Pareigis, Erik Wästlund, Alexander Makrygiannis, Anton Lindström   +4 more
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Method for Determining Sensor Location for Automated Shading Control in Office Building

Energies, 2022
Shading facilities are important technology to enable the adjustment of the indoor light and heat environment, and the control logic of the technology relies on data collected by sensors.
Cui Li, Xuyun Yu, Zhengrong Li, Yi Zhao, Yuxin Liu, Xiangchao Lian, Yanbo Feng, Han Zhu   +7 more
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Heritage Protection Versus Individual Interests in a Post-Socialist Country: the Case of Mšeno, Czech Republic [PDF]

, 2015
Large-scale investment is routinely believed to be the main danger to urban heritage. The measures designed to sustain heritage thus traditionally focus on steering investment into respectful ways of real-estate development.
Nowotny, Vojta, Trevisan, Jitka, Wranová, Alena   +2 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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