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Are Open‐Plan Office Designs Still Popular After Coronavirus Pandemic? [PDF]

open access: yesPerformance Improvement, 2020
Recently the modern focus of management, human resource, and health research were on office design and reducing or minimizing workplace problems and overall cost for office design.
Sanaz Ahmadpoor Samani   +1 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Exploring the potential of nearly zero energy retrofitting for generic office buildings in Cairo, Egypt

open access: yesEnergy Reports, 2022
Energy consumption of the buildings sector has increased dramatically over the past decade. In Egypt, existing buildings consume 60% of electrical energy.
M. Hamza, S. Alsaadani, M. Fahmy
doaj   +1 more source

Collaboration in open-plan offices [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Speech levels in open plan offices

open access: yesThe 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.
openaire   +3 more sources

Visible light communications-based indoor positioning via compressed sensing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper presents an approach for visible light communication-based indoor positioning using compressed sensing. We consider a large number of light emitting diodes (LEDs) simultaneously transmitting their positional information and a user device ...
Ajmani, Manisha   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Stress, Visual and Musculoskeletal Complaints in Open Plan Office Staff

open access: yesActa Medica Bulgarica, 2014
The aim of the study was to identify the main ergonomic and organizational risks contributing to stress, visual and musculoskeletal disorders in open plan office workers. A total of 73 subjects of mean age 28.3 ±4.7 years were studied.
Vangelova K., Stanchev V.
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of auditive and visual settings on perceived restoration likelihood

open access: yesNoise and Health, 2015
Research has so far paid little attention to how environmental sounds might affect restorative processes. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of auditive and visual stimuli on perceived restoration likelihood and attitudes towards
Helena Jahncke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Workspace satisfaction and work behaviour of computer systems managers [PDF]

open access: yesPsihološka 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Field Study of Individual, Energy-Efficient, and Human-Centered Indoor Electric Lighting: Its Impact on Comfort and Visual Performance in an Open-Plan Office Part 1

open access: yesBuildings
In this field study, we examined the impact of human-centered lighting on an open-plan office environment, involving the participation of sixty office workers.
S. Aliparast, S. Onaygil
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Analysis of the Thermal Comfort and Energy Performance of a Thermal Chair for Open Plan Office

open access: yesJournal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2020
The aim of this work is to analyse the thermal comfort and energy performance of a thermal heating chair for open plan office using field experiments, thermal comfort survey and energy simulations.
S. Shahzad   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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