Texte remanié de : Dissertation : Kunstgeschichte : Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig : 2005. / Bibliogr. p. 398 - 418.

Introduction: The activity-based office has had a breakthrough in the past few years. One of the reasons for this is that the technology now allows it to work properly. The concept is a type of open landscaped office that put its main focus on the design of the physical work environment. The office is divided in different areas with the purpose to match employees’ different tasks. There is still not much research done on the new concept and the research that has been carried out has been carried out in connection with the move or a maximum of 15 months after the move to the new office. Purpose: The study aimed at comparing employees' perceived perception of the classic office and the activity-based office abilities with regard to leadership, health, productivity and the social work environment. The essay also concerns how well designed the activity-based office layout is. Method: The study was a quantitative survey and the data was collected through a web survey. The web survey consisted of 25 questions relating to the categories of social, leadership, health, productivity and office layout. Analysis: The data was analyzed by generation of mean values for each category, broken down by gender, age, time in activity-based office and the total from every respondent. The data was also analyzed by a correlation analysis. Results: According to the results that was collected, the activity-based office had a overbalanced positive experience than the classical office in each category investigated, except the category regarding health. Conclusions: Based on the results, it can be noted that an activity-based office towards a classic office provides a higher value for employees in social, leadership, productivity and design. In health, however, it gives a lower value, which shows that employees had better health in the classical office. The results show that the survey can confirm what previous research has said. However, the result can not be generalized on an entire population as the number of respondents and variations was too small. To be able to generalize the results further research must be done. / Introduktion: Aktivitetsbaserade kontor är något som de senaste åren blivit mer och mer vanligt. Till följd av informationsteknikens framfart har denna kontorsutformning tillåtits att fungera på ett effektivt sätt. Konceptet är en typ av öppet kontorslandskap där medarbetaren saknar en fast plats. Mycket vikt läggs på den fysiska utformningen, där olika zoner delar in kontoren i aktiva, stillsamma och tysta områden. Tidigare forskning kring det nya konceptet är otillräcklig då den forskning som finns är genomförd i samband med flytten eller max 15 månader efter inflyttningen. Syfte: Studien syftade till att jämföra medarbetares upplevda uppfattning av cellkontorets och det aktivitetsbaserade kontorets förmågor med avseende på ledarskap, hälsa, produktivitet, den sociala arbetsmiljön. Uppsatsen berör även hur väl utformat det aktivitetsbaserade kontoret är. Metod: Studien var en kvantitativ undersökning och datan som används samlades in genom en webbenkät. Enkäten bestod av 25 frågor som berörde kategorierna socialt, ledarskap, hälsa, produktivitet och kontorets utformning. Analys: Datan analyserades genom framtagande av medelvärden för respektive kategori. Totalt, uppdelat efter kön, ålder samt tid i aktivitetsbaserat kontor. Datan analyserades även genom en korrelationsanalys. Resultat: Från resultatet går det att utläsa att det aktivitetsbaserade kontoret upplevdes bättre än det klassiska cellkontoret i varje kategori förutom kategorin angående hälsa. Slutsats: Utifrån resultaten går det att konstatera att ett aktivitetsbaserat kontor gentemot ett cellkontor ger ett högre värde för de anställda i det sociala, ledarskap, produktivitet och utformning. I hälsa ger den dock sämre ett sämre värde. Resultatet visar att undersökningen kan konstatera vad tidigare forskning har bekräftat. Dock går inte resultatet att generalisera på en hel population då antal respondenter och variation var för liten. Detta är något som måste göras i ytterligare forskning.

When a company creates, rebuilds or develops new or existing workplace facilitates, research has shown such phases are of the most crucial and influential for creating healthy and effective workplaces. To include ergonomic principles in the early planning stages have proven to result in reduced expenses, and an increased ability to make influential contributions. Practitioners of Occupational Health Services (OHS) possess unique knowledge and expertise in the area, thus have potential to be a tremendous resource during the planning and projection of workspace design projects. Encouraging a participatory approach, OHS practitioners are valuable collaborators with end-users and Architects alike. In this study, three-dimensional CAD-tools were explored in order to provide OHS practitioners with methods and tools that enhance their ability to communicate workspace proposals to end-users of new or renewed office environments. Following an exploration process, a proposed design tool; SketchUp, was preceded for Usability testing. Results of the study indicated a considerable degree of applicability to OHS practitioners, despite an expressed desire for a simpler, more learnable interface. The software was believed to facilitate in the process of visualizing and communicating workspace proposals by increasing end-users understanding of the new work environment, including an enhanced ability to relate to and communicate with Architects.