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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Workspace satisfaction and work behaviour of computer systems managers [PDF]
Psihološka Istraživanja, 2012 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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The Rise of Office Design in High-Performance, Open-Plan Environments
Buildings, 2019 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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Occupants’ satisfaction and perceived productivity in open-plan offices designed to support activity-based working: findings from different industry sectors [PDF]
, 2021 Purpose: In the rise of offices designed to support activity-based working (ABW), parts of industry have fully transitioned to open-plan environments and then later to unassigned seating, whereas other parts, such as tertiary education, are still in the ...
Gou, Z +29 more
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Energy and Comfort in Contemporary Open Plan and Traditional Personal Offices
, 2016 Two office layouts with high and low levels of thermal control were compared, respectively traditional cellular and contemporary open plan offices. The traditional Norwegian practice provided every user with control over a window, blinds, door, and the ...
John Brennan +18 more
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Lighting of open plan (automated) offices [PDF]
, 1995 Cataloged from PDF version of article.Includes bibliographical references leaves 113-116.Lighting in Open Plan (Automated) offices is an important factor for the workers performance and productivity.
Öner, İlkin
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, 2020 Offices are evolving rapidly to facilitate organizational cost reductions and to better support contemporary working practices. We investigate relationships between the design of contemporary offices (physical proximity and breakout areas) and autonomy ...
Clegg, CW, Leach, DJ, Davis, MC
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New study should be the final nail for open-plan offices
, 2018 [Extract] Open-plan offices have taken off because of a desire to increase interaction and collaboration among workers. But an innovative new study has found that employees in open-plan offices spend 73% less time in face-to-face interactions.
Sander, Elizabeth J; id_orcid
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Contributions of various transmission paths to speech privacy of open ceiling meeting rooms in open-plan offices [PDF]
, 2016 Installing open ceiling meeting rooms inside a large open-plan office provides a solution to increase speech privacy and to reduce speech disturbance in the office.
Jingxia Yu (9529392) +4 more
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Evaluation of the luminous environment in open-plan offices with skylights [PDF]
, 2012 High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging was used to collect luminance information at workstations in 2 open-plan office buildings in Queensland, Australia: one lit by skylights, vertical windows and electric light, and another by skylights and electric light ...
Hirning, Michael +2 more
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