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Does open-plan office environment support creativity? The mediating role of activated positive mood
Creativity Studies, 2020 This study examines how perceived physical office environment features affect occupants’ creativity through positive moods. Based on a sample of 181 occupants in open-plan offices, we found that perceived spatial organization features had a positive ...
Szu-Yin Lin, Hsin-I Chang
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Self-rated health implications of noise for open-plan office workers: An overview of the literature
Building Acoustics, 2023 In open-plan offices (OPO), workspaces without ground-to-ceiling dividers, noise is one of the most complained about aspects, causing physical and psychological impacts.
Sofia Felipe Contin de Oliveira +2 more
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Culture and Organization, 2022 The contribution of the open-plan office to work and organisation has long been a matter of some debate. Aside from its economic advantages, it is argued that it provides an important opportunity for colleagues to share knowledge and help each other.
F. Salvadori, J. Hindmarsh, C. Heath
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Sustainability, 2022 Mixing ventilation systems effectively improves thermal comfort in open-spaces due to adequate turbulent mixing of the cold stream with ambient air.
H. Latif +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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Open-plan office noise is stressful: multimodal stress detection in a simulated work environment
Journal of Management & Organization, 2021 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019)-induced changes in the workplace present a timely opportunity for human resource management practitioners to consider and remediate the deleterious effects of noise, a commonly cited complaint of employees ...
E. J. Sander +4 more
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Journal of Occupational Health and Epidemiology, 2021 Article Info Background: Today, open-plan offices are among the most common work environments. Although the noise in these environments is usually below the standard level, it is one of the critical annoyance factors due to the nature of the mental work.
Mohammad Javad Sheikhmozafari +3 more
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Office design and occupational health – has research been left behind?
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2023 Tens of millions of workers in Europe work in office environments. Such a physical environment might seem fairly harmless compared to the exposures of many other work environments.
Annu Haapakangas +2 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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Sustainability, 2022 Precision ventilation is developed to achieve thermal comfort for occupants in an office by creating micro-climate zones. The present study aims to achieve individual thermal comfort for occupants with different metabolic rates by using higher airspeeds ...
H. Latif +6 more
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