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Office design as a risk factor for disability retirement: A prospective registry study of Norwegian employees

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021
OBJECTIVES: This aim of this study was to (i) examine differences in risk of subsequent disability retirement between employees working in cellular, shared, and open-plan offices and (ii) determine the contribution of gender, skill-level, work ability ...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Jan Shahid Emberland, Stein Knardahl   +2 more
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Sickness absence and sickness presence in relation to office type: An observational study of employer-recorded and self-reported data from Sweden.

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, Aram Seddigh, Erik Berntson, Hugo Westerlund   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Lee, P. J, Park, S., Roskams, Michael   +3 more
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A Comparison of Psychological and Work Outcomes in Open-Plan and Cellular Office Designs: A Systematic Review

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, Paul Delfabbro, Daniel L. King   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Noise on Self-rated Job Satisfaction and Health in Open-plan offices: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach [PDF]

, 2015
This study uses a structural equation model to examine the effects of noise on self-rated job satisfaction and health in open-plan offices. A total of 334 employees from six open-plan offices in China and Korea completed a questionnaire survey.
Boyce P., Byung Kwon Lee, Jian Kang, Jin Yong Jeon, Job R. F. S., Kupritz V., Mei Zhang, Pyoung Jik Lee   +7 more
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A study of the impact of individual thermal control on user comfort in the workplace: Norwegian cellular vs. British open plan offices [PDF]

, 2016
In modern offices, user control is being replaced by centrally operated thermal systems, and in Scandinavia, personal offices by open plan layouts. This study examined the impact of user control on thermal comfort and satisfaction.
ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), Axéll C., Becker F., Ben Hughes, Bordass B., Charkham J. P., CIBSE (The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers), Dimitris Theodossopoulos, Duffy F., Duffy F., Forty A., Gadsjö A., Harris R., Hawkes D., Ives R. S., John Brennan, John Kaiser Calautit, Klein J. G., Klein N., Laing A., Leaman A., Marans R. W., Marmot A., Myerson J., Pile J., Roaf S., Rostron J., Sally Shahzad, Tuohy P., Van Meel J., Van Meel J.   +33 more
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Comfort Distance—A Single-Number Quantity Describing Spatial Attenuation in Open-Plan Offices

Applied Sciences, 2021
ISO 3382-3 is globally used to determine the room acoustic conditions of open-plan offices using in situ measurements. The key outcomes of the standard are three single-number quantities: distraction distance, rD, A-weighted sound pressure level of ...
Valtteri Hongisto, Jukka Keränen
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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, Simone Secchi, Gianfranco Cellai   +2 more
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Differential perceptions of teamwork, focused work and perceived productivity as an effect of desk characteristics within a workplace layout.

PLoS ONE, 2021
The impact of the physical workplace on behaviors and attitudes at work is a much-studied topic. Major research streams over the last decades investigated either satisfaction with offices in relation to physical comfort, or how layout decisions ...
Kerstin Sailer, Petros Koutsolampros, Rosica Pachilova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices – a national cross sectional questionnaire survey

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2011
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine whether shared and open-plan offices are associated with more days of sickness absence than cellular offices.
Jan H Pejtersen, Helene Feveile, Karl Bang Christensen, Hermann Burr   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source