Office Design’s Impact on Psychosocial Work Environment and Emotional Health

Christina Bodin Danielsson () and Töres Theorell
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Christina Bodin Danielsson: Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Töres Theorell: Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

IJERPH, 2024, vol. 21, issue 4, 1-22

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: office design; office work environment; psychosocial work environment; social health; emotional health; emotional exhaustion; Job Demand–Control–Support model; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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