Turning the Mirror on the Architects: A Study of the Open-Plan Office and Work Behaviors at an Architectural Company [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Following the rising cost of real estate and a desire to increase collaboration and communication among employees, the open-plan office has been trending over the past decades.
Dorota Węziak-Białowolska +2 more
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Acoustical environment in the open-plan office [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1976 ASTM E-33.04C Committee on Environmental Acoustics, Applications Subcomittee, Task Force on Open-Office Acoustics, has prepared a publication entitled, “Acoustical Environment in the Open-Plan Office.” The purpose was “ … to assemble and explain recent references on the acoustical design and testing of open-plan offices. The principles contained may be
Haynes, Barry
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Perception of Water-Based Masking Sounds—Long-Term Experiment in an Open-Plan Office [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 A certain level of masking sound is necessary to control the disturbance caused by speech sounds in open-plan offices. The sound is usually provided with evenly distributed loudspeakers.
Valtteri Hongisto +7 more
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Effect of self-adjustable masking noise on open-plan office worker’s concentration, task performance and attitudes [PDF]
Applied Acoustics, 2017 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.
Miles Richardson
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DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE OF HORIZONTAL LIGHT PIPE BRANCHING ON OPEN PLAN OFFICE SPACE [PDF]
Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2015 For daylighting purpose, office buildings should have a shallow plan and increase the ratio of surface to building’s volume. However, intensive use of air-conditioning drives office building’s plan to be deep with a minimum surface to volume ratio.
Feny ELSIANA +2 more
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SAGE Open, 2021 A high percentage of information-based work is now conducted in open-plan offices as opposed to traditional cellular offices. In this systematic review, we compare health, work, and social outcomes as well as employee outcomes for workers in the two ...
Olivia James +2 more
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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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The Importance of Office Layout for Employee Productivity
Dinamika Pendidikan, 2020 This study was conducted to explain the impact of open and enclosed plan office layouts on employee productivity. The subject area for this study was in Amanah Saham Pahang Berhad (ASPA).
Nurbarirah Ahmad +5 more
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Comparative analysis of window operating behavior in three different open-plan offices in Nanjing
Energy and Built Environment, 2021 Research on the window operating behavior of offices is of great significance for reducing building energy consumption and improving indoor comfort. The open-plan office is a common office form that involves a large number of people and a complex staff ...
Jiawen Ren +6 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 +2 more
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