Open-Plan Offices and Job Satisfaction (10-10-07)
People working in open-plan offices who feel more satisfied with their physical work environments have higher levels of job satisfaction.
People working in open-plan offices who feel more satisfied with their physical work environments have higher levels of job satisfaction.
Workplace floorplans influence employee communication, which influences employee performance.
Navigating from one place to another across several floors is a complex process.
Male office workers participating in a recent study had more positive perceptions of an open-plan workplace than female co-workers.
Analyzing the spatial layout, or the floorplate, of work environments is starting to produce information useful for practitioners.
Radio-frequency tracking devices attached to grocery carts have shown that people move through a grocery store in a different manner than was previously thought.
The current study indicates that the influence of ambient odor in retail spaces is influenced by the number of shoppers in an area, and that the positive influence of pleasant odors is only found when a moderate number of shoppers are present.
The pairings of slower music and higher shopper density, or faster music and lower shopper density, lead to different shopper evaluations of their shopping trips.
Several recently published reviews that examine the research literature provide information about the appropriate design of health care environments. Taken together, they are a useful and up-to-date starting point on approaching this research.
Researchers designed a hospital waiting area that is associated with more positive assessments of the physical environment, improved mood, enhanced physiological state, and more satisfaction with the environment than the standard waiting room.