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. +24 more
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Acoustic Issues in Open Plan Offices: A Typological Analysis
Buildings, 2018 This paper reports the acoustic issues of open plan office environments. According to a detailed research based on the scientific literature of the most suitable acoustic descriptors recommended for the open plan offices analysis, the main typological ...
Sara Delle Macchie +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate (i) the main effects of office design and access to telework from home (TWFH) on self-certified sickness absence and (ii) the moderating effects of access to TWFH on the relationship ...
Randi Hovden Borge +3 more
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Acoustic comfort in open-plan offices: The role of employee characteristics [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose – This paper aims to determine the extent to which employees’ experiences of acoustic comfort, well-being and productivity in open-plan offices are determined by specific characteristics (including demographic information, task characteristics,
Haynes, Barry +3 more
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The Adaptive Architectural Layout: How the Control of a Semi-Autonomous Mobile Robotic Partition was Shared to Mediate the Environmental Demands and Resources of an Open-Plan Office [PDF]
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsA typical open-plan office layout is unable to optimally host multiple collocated work activities, personal needs, and situational events, as its space exerts a range of environmental demands on workers in terms of maintaining their acoustic, visual or ...
Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen, Andrew Vande Moere
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'The creation of the Monnet Plan, 1945-46: a critical re-evaluation' [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on an extensive range of French archival sources as well as Jean Monnet’s papers, this article challenges several commonly-held views regarding the establishment of the Monnet Plan by re-examining the domestic political context in post-war France.
Brunet, Luc-Andre
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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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PLoS ONE, 2020 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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An Example Approach for Taking of Auditory Comfort as a Design Parameter in Open Planned Offices
Megaron, 2020 Noise audit is extremely important in creating an auditory environment suitable for the actions of users in volumes. On the other hand, due to the physical properties and functions of the volumes in certain buildings such as an open-plan office ...
Semran Özdem Gürtürk +1 more
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Building Related Symptoms, Energ, and Thermal Comfort in the Workplace: Personal and Open Plan Offices [PDF]
, 2016 This study compared building-related symptoms in personal and open plan offices, where high and low levels of control over the thermal environment were provided, respectively.
Brennan, John +4 more
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