Halldorsson and teammates report that expectations formed of activity-based workplaces before move-in influence users actual experiences in these areas. The researchers share that their goal was to “explore how implementing an activity-based work environment impacts employees’ workspace satisfaction (e.g. privacy, air quality, lighting, temperature, etc.). A sample . . . in a government organization implementing an activity-based working environment was investigated using a longitudinal design, with employees being surveyed thrice – once before and twice after implementation. The results indicate that when workspace satisfaction is impacted by implementing an activity-based work environment, this effect seems primarily based on employees’ prior attitude toward such work environments. . . . this study supports the importance of employees’ initial attitude toward an activity-based work environment concerning workspace satisfaction. This finding has practical implications for organizations and advances the understanding of why an activity-based work environment may positively affect workspace satisfaction for some employees while negatively affecting others.”
Freyr Halldorsson, Halldor Valgeirsson, and Kari Kristinsson. “The Predictive Power of Prior Attitudes: Understanding Employee Workspace Satisfaction in Activity-Based Work Environments.” Journal of Corporate Real Estate, in press, https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRE-09-2023-0038