Office Design’s Impact on Psychosocial Work Environment and Emotional Health
Journal article, 2024

This study explores the association between office design and (a) the psychosocial work environment and (b) the emotional health among 4352 employees in seven different office designs. A multivariate linear regression analysis was performed with adjustments for age and educational level for men and women separately. Results show that psychosocial factors and emotional exhaustion differ between both office designs and between genders, with best outcomes in cell offices, except for psychological demands that are rated the most favourable in shared-room offices. Cell offices and small open-plan offices show a strong beneficial association with emotional exhaustion in women. Among men, hot-desking is most problematic regarding psychosocial work environment and emotional exhaustion. Women rate the psychosocial environment low in combi-office and report emotional exhaustion in small open offices.

office work environment

emotional health

gender

emotional exhaustion

psychosocial work environment

Job Demand–Control–Support model

social health

office design

Author

Christina Bodin Danielsson

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Construction Management

Thöres Theorell

Karolinska Institutet

Stockholm University

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

1661-7827 (ISSN) 1660-4601 (eISSN)

Vol. 21 4 438

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Environmental Health and Occupational Health

DOI

10.3390/ijerph21040438

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