The Role of Personal Control in Alleviating Negative Perceptions in the Open-Plan Workplace
Buildings, 2018 Today’s office buildings adopt open-plan settings for collaboration and space efficiency. However, the open plan setting has been intensively criticized for its adverse user experiences, such as noise, privacy loss, and over cooling.
Zhonghua Gou, Jian Zhang, Leigh Shutter
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Does Personality Have a Different Impact on Self-Rated Distraction, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance in Different Office Types? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 This study investigates the joint effect of office type (cell, shared room, open-plan, and flex) and personality, measured by the Big Five personality traits, on self-rated measures of distraction, job satisfaction, and job performance (measured by ...
Aram Seddigh +3 more
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The Rise of Office Design in High-Performance, Open-Plan Environments
Buildings, 2019 This study aimed to identify key drivers behind workers’ satisfaction, perceived productivity, and health in open-plan offices while at the same time understanding design similarities shared by high-performance workspaces.
Christhina Candido +2 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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Workspace satisfaction and work behaviour of computer systems managers [PDF]
Psihološka 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
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Satisfaction with indoor environmental quality in BREEAM and non-BREEAM certified office buildings [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents preliminary analysis of occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality in Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) and non-BREEAM certified offices in the UK.
Altomonte, Sergio +3 more
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Effect of self-adjustable masking noise on open-plan office worker’s concentration, task performance and attitudes [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of workers in an open-plan office towards concentration, task performance and co-worker interaction when wearing earphones with masking noise and when not wearing earphones.
Richardson, Miles, Vassie, Ken
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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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Evaluation of the Workplace Environment in the UK, and the Impact on Users’ Levels of Stimulation [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of this study is to evaluate a number of recently completed workplaces in the UK. The first aim is to assess the impact of various aspects of the workplace environment on users’ levels of stimulation.
Abdou HG +37 more
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Buildings, 2019 This paper reports the results from a dataset comprising 9794 post-occupancy evaluation (POE) surveys from 77 Australian open-plan offices. This paper specifically focuses on a sub-set of 20 offices (n = 2133), identified from ranking 10 offices each ...
Özgür Göçer +3 more
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