Human responses to the office work environment (original) (raw)

This project assessed personal preference of an environment through interviews and observations of each individual employee and his or her work task. The architect, Sam Sloan aimed to apply the principles of proxemics or the study of positions and distances between people to the redesign of the office at the Australian Mutual Provident Insurance Society (AMP) with the existing furniture so that the relationship between staff members and the environment would be improved. An attempt was also made to visually articulate the office space and enhance it in comparison with the open spaces which existed before. Twelve months after the spatial modifications a team from the Architectural Psychology Research Unit at the University of Sydney investigated this changed office arrangement. The results were compared with an identical office in the same building that had not been changed thus proving that certain aspects of increased satisfaction could be attributed to the physical design change. PROJECT This project, conducted in Sydney, Australia, entailed the modification of an office layout based on personal preference in order to achieve increased staff satisfaction and performance. A follow-up evaluation was conducted of the clerical staff's attitudes and performance and was compared with a similar office layout that had not undergone any spatial modification. The project was undertaken by Sloan as part of the Australian-American Fullbright study programme in conjunction with the University of Sydney. ~ The postoccupancy evaluation study was conducted by the I.B.

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