Workers’ Satisfaction vis-à-vis Environmental and Socio-Morphological Aspects for Sustainability and Decent Work

Abeer Elshater, Hisham Abusaada, Abdulmoneim Alfiky, Nardine El-Bardisy, Esraa Elmarakby and Sandy Grant
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Abeer Elshater: Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11517, Egypt
Hisham Abusaada: Housing and Building National Research Center, Giza 1770, Egypt
Abdulmoneim Alfiky: Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11517, Egypt
Nardine El-Bardisy: Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11517, Egypt
Esraa Elmarakby: School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
Sandy Grant: Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11517, Egypt

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-25

Abstract: This study examines worker satisfaction vis-à-vis outdoor places in terms of their environmental and socio-morphological aspects. Numerous studies have considered decent work as the eighth goal of sustainable development. However, it is worth investigating outdoor workers’ satisfaction with a view to the practical design of the surrounding context that supports their work in outdoor places. Using bibliometric analysis, this study investigates possible approaches toward providing decent work in a public place in Cairo as a case study, focusing on outdoor workers’ satisfaction. In the bibliometric analysis, this study used query settings in the Scimago database to search for manuscripts published in the previous five years. The result yielded 195 manuscripts that were filtered down to 50 manuscripts and then grouped using VOSviewr Software. Environmental noise and heat assessment analyses were performed using noise level measurements, remote sensing, and the Grasshopper platform. Further, we conducted an ethnographic study employing 77 participant observations. The results show that work hours and time affect worker satisfaction, as do environmental conditions, particularly noise and heat. However, unexpected findings from participant observation in this study do not accord with findings in other scholarly sources, where other observers find workers neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the spatial morphology in the case study. Per this study, the alignment of worker satisfaction with convenient socio-morphological tangible elements of the workplace and with other environmental aspects should be attained in both specified replicable methods to engender decent work for outdoor workers.

Keywords: ethnographic research; land surface temperature; remote sensing; sound level measurement; sound pressure levels; urban heat islands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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