1. Exploring mobility & workplace choice in a flexible office through post-occupancy evaluation
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Özgür Göçer, Işıl Oygür, Kenan Göçer, Ebru Ergöz Karahan, Özyeğin University, Göçer, Özgür, Göçer, Kenan, Karahan, Ebru Ergöz, İlhan, Işıl Oygür, Female, and Male
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Adult ,Male ,Engineering ,Knowledge management ,Occupancy ,Restructuring ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Human Factors and Ergonomics ,02 engineering and technology ,Place attachment ,Post-occupancy evaluation ,Choice Behavior ,Job Satisfaction ,Transport engineering ,021105 building & construction ,0502 economics and business ,Humans ,Workplace ,Desk ,Mobility ,Social Identification ,business.industry ,Data Collection ,05 social sciences ,Flexibility (personality) ,GIS ,Spatio-temporal mapping ,Object Attachment ,Environmental Psychology ,Work (electrical) ,Evaluation Studies as Topic ,Female ,Organizational structure ,Flexible offices ,business ,050203 business & management ,Interior Design and Furnishings - Abstract
Developments in information and communication systems, organisational structure and the nature of work have contributed to the restructuring of work environments. In these new types of work environments, employees do not have assigned workplaces. This arrangement helps organisations to minimise rent costs and increase employee interaction and knowledge exchange through mobility. This post-occupancy evaluation (POE) study focuses on a flexible office in a Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified building in Istanbul. An integrated qualitative and quantitative POE technique with occupancy tracking via barcode scanning and instant surveying has been introduced. Using this unique approach, we examined the directives/drivers in workplace choice and mobility from different perspectives. The aggregated data was used to discern work-related consequences such as flexibility, workplace choice, work and indoor environment satisfaction, place attachment and identity. The results show that employees who have a conventional working culture develop a new working style: 'fixed-flexible working'. Practitioner Summary: This paper introduces a new POE approach for flexible offices based on occupancy tracking through barcode scanning to explore workplace choice and mobility. More than half (52.1%) of the participants have tended to choose the same desk every day. However, the satisfaction level of the 'mobile' employees was higher than that of the 'fixed flexible' employees.
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- 2017
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