Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Offices, Alternate Locations, and Working
Fresh evidence indicates that our professional performance varies in different sorts of spaces and that office-type environments are probably still generally the best places for us to work. As we spend more time working in non-office spaces and technology improves to support us as we do so, this may change; but at this moment in human history the office-performance link seems important to consider. Moskalluk, Burmeister, Cress and their colleagues have studied performance in more usual sorts of offices and in alternative locations. Moskaliuk, Burmeister, Landkammer, Renner and Cress published a paper in 2017 which compared performance “in a traditional office on company premises” and “in the home or in other environments that were never originally conceptualized for working, such as parks or hotel lobbies.” They “used virtual 3D environments to examine the impact of a work-related (characteristic office) vs. a non-work related context (Tuscan garden) on attention, concentration, and …
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