Office design and health: a systematic review

A Richardson, J Potter, M Paterson… - New Zealand Medical …, 2017 - irep.ntu.ac.uk
Aim: To carry out a systematic review of recent research into the effects of workplace design,
comparing individual with shared workspaces, on the health of employees. Methods: The …

Occupant health in buildings: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the opinions of building professionals and implications on research

M Awada, B Becerik-Gerber, E White, S Hoque… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study are to investigate building professionals' experience, awareness,
and interest in occupant health in buildings, and to assess the impact of the COVID-19 …

The productivity tax of new office concepts: a comparative review of open-plan offices, activity-based working, and single-office concepts

A Gerlitz, M Hülsbeck - Management Review Quarterly, 2024 - Springer
This systematic review critically analyzes the relationship between office concepts and
individual and organizational performance. Based on the current literature, we identify seven …

A grounded theory approach to investigate the perceived soundscape of open-plan offices

V Acun, S Yilmazer - Applied Acoustics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents the findings of a user focused soundscape survey, that took place in a
visual task based and a computational task based open-plan office spaces. Aim of this study …

[HTML][HTML] Influential design factors on occupant satisfaction with indoor environment in workplaces

M Kwon, H Remøy, M Van den Bogaard - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Occupant satisfaction with IEQ (indoor environmental quality) is influenced by many physical
and psychological factors. This paper reports the results of a study that investigate influential …

Policies in Activity-based Flexible Offices-'I am sloppy with clean-desking. We don't really know the rules.'

M Babapour Chafi, L Rolfö - Ergonomics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Activity-based Flexible Offices (A-FOs) are offices with unassigned desks that
provide a variety of workspaces. This paper presents desk-sharing and speech rules …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of noise absorption variation in open-plan offices: A field study with a cross-over design

A Seddigh, E Berntson, F Jönsson… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Noise has repeatedly been shown to be one of the most recurrent reasons for complaints in
open-plan office environments. The aim of the present study was to investigate if enhanced …

Does personality have a different impact on self-rated distraction, job satisfaction, and job performance in different office types?

A Seddigh, E Berntson, LG Platts, H Westerlund - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Objective measures of cognitive performance in activity based workplaces and traditional office types

H Jahncke, DM Hallman - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Distraction from the background environment while performing concentrationdemanding
tasks is a common issue for office employees in shared work areas. However, few field …

The impact of space design on occupants' satisfaction with indoor environment in university dormitories

Z Dong, K Zhao, M Ren, J Ge, IYS Chan - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Indoor environmental quality is closely-related to the occupants' comfort, performance and
health. However, very few studies on indoor environmental quality were done in university …