24/04/2023
Today I wanted to share an interesting article published by the World Economic Forum titled
“Study finds that the ideal office space depends on an employee's personality” published Mar 7, 2023
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/work-personality-office-space/
“This suggests that the workspace should be designed to fit the worker, and not the other way around,” says study co-author Esther Sternberg, research director for the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Centre for Integrative Medicine and director of the university’s Institute on Place, Wellbeing, and Performance.
“Our work illuminates the importance of considering both the individual’s personality and their environment in predicting important behavioural and mood outcomes, such as how happy a person is and how well a person is able to work,” says study senior author Matthias Mehl, a professor in the psychology department. “In this vein, we demonstrate that when employers design and allocate workspaces, it may be beneficial to take an employee-centred approach.”
Space planning for offices is so much more than dividing spaces up by functions and defining the flow, it is also taking into account the work to be done and the needs of the people utilising it.
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