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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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Understanding user evaluation structures for wooden frames in open-plan offices: a quantitative and qualitative study

Journal of Wood Science
This study aimed to explore the psychological effects of wooden frames and interiors in open-plan offices (OPO) and to understand the evaluation structure associated with wooden materials.
Takashi Shima, Katsuhiko Sakata, Mayu Shirakawa, Yuko Tsunetsugu   +3 more
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Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Occupant Behaviour in Open Plan Offices in India and Lithuania

Buildings
Understanding the relationship between thermal comfort and adaptive behaviour in office environments is important for designing sustainable and occupant-centric buildings.
Himanshu Patel Tuniki, Andrius Jurelionis, Ricardo Forgiarini Rupp, Rokas Valančius, Gabriel Bekö   +4 more
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Does job control contribute to differences in physician-certified sickness absence across office concepts? A mediation analysis in a nationally representative sample [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
OBJECTIVES: Several studies have found higher sickness absence in shared and open workspaces than in private offices, but little is known about why these differences occur.
Randi Hovden Borge, Håkon A Johannessen, Knut Inge Fostervold, Morten Birkeland Nielsen   +3 more
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Explaining the influence of biophilic design on employee well-being [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Biophilic workplace design has been proposed as an effective strategy to increase employee well-being in open-plan offices. To expand our understanding of why and for whom indoor nature exposure increases well-being, the aim of this study was to evaluate
Carmen Valor, Raquel Redondo, Isabel Carrero   +2 more
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Office design, telework from home, and self-certified sickness absence: A cross-sectional study of main and moderating effects in a nationally representative sample

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, Håkon A Johannessen, Knut Inge Fostervold, Morten Birkeland Nielsen   +3 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, Xin Zhou, Jingjing An, Da Yan, Xing Shi, Xing Jin, Shaoyan Zheng   +6 more
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ROOM ACOUSTIC DESIGN IN OPEN-PLAN OFFICES

8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, 2023
In a Nordic cooperation project the acoustical conditions in open-plan offices was investigated. Measurements have been carried out in five open plan offices accompanied with an inquiry gathering the subjective judgments by the staff. A program for the acoustical measurements was designed specifying how to perform the measurements and which type of ...
Nilsson, Erling, Hellström, Björn
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The work environment pilot: An experiment to determine the optimal office design for a technology company.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Over the past few decades many corporate organisations have moved to open-plan office designs, mostly due to financial and logistical benefits. However, recent studies have found significant drawbacks to open plan offices and it is unclear how office ...
Jegar Pitchforth, Elizabeth C Nelson, Marc van den Helder, Wouter Oosting   +3 more
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Building-Related Symptoms, Energy, and Thermal Control 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, J., Calautit, J. K., Hughes, B. R., Shahzad, S. S., Theodossopoulos, D.   +4 more
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