Workspace satisfaction: The privacy-communication trade-off in open-plan offices

被引:394
作者
Kim, Jungsoo [1 ]
de Dear, Richard [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sydney, Fac Architecture Design & Planning, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
关键词
Indoor environmental quality (IEQ); Office layout; Open-plan; Privacy; Satisfaction; Post occupancy evaluation (POE); EMPLOYEE REACTIONS; WORK-ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE; NOISE; DESIGN; BUILDINGS; SYMPTOMS; STRESS; HEALTH; FIELD;
D O I
10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.06.007
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Open-plan office layout is commonly assumed to facilitate communication and interaction between co-workers, promoting workplace satisfaction and team-work effectiveness. On the other hand, open-plan layouts are widely acknowledged to be more disruptive due to uncontrollable noise and loss of privacy. Based on the occupant survey database from Center for the Built Environment (CBE), empirical analyses indicated that occupants assessed Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) issues in different ways depending on the spatial configuration (classified by the degree of enclosure) of their workspace. Enclosed private offices clearly outperformed open-plan layouts in most aspects of IEQ particularly in acoustics, privacy and the proxemics issues. Benefits of enhanced 'ease of interaction' were smaller than the penalties of increased noise level and decreased privacy resulting from open-plan office configuration. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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