What is it about?
This paper aims to determine the extent to which employees’ experiences of acoustic comfort, well-being and productivity in open-plan offices are determined by specific characteristics (including demographic information, task characteristics, and personality traits).
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Why is it important?
At present, many workplace practitioners still adopt a "one-size-fits-all" approach to the workplace. Here, we demonstrate that different employees perceive the very same environment in different ways, and it is important that practitioners recognise this.
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Acoustic (dis)comfort is repeatedly highlighted as the most common problem in modern open-plan offices. By demonstrating that this type of environment only supports a minority of employees, we hope to encourage workplace designers to pay greater attention to the acoustic design of their offices (particularly with respect to designing quiet spaces to support focused work).
Mr Michael Roskams
Sheffield Hallam University
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This page is a summary of: Acoustic comfort in open-plan offices: the role of employee characteristics, Journal of Corporate Real Estate, July 2019, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jcre-02-2019-0011.
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