Research Design Connection: Personality-Aware Workplace Design
Lindberg, Tran and Banasiak used an online survey to study how personality influences responses to office design. The research team defined extraversion as “the degree to which one is outgoing and social, while neuroticism is a measure of negative emotionality (versus emotional stability and even-temperedness) and is positively correlated with anxiety and unhappiness.” The Lindberg lead team determined that “difference in exposure [to others, as in an open workplace] had relatively little effect on perceived control for individuals in the low neuroticism category, but individuals in the high neuroticism category felt much less control in an exposed work space than in a more enclosed work space.” Additional findings related to extraversion and office design: “While the results were not significant [they are very close to significant]…individuals scoring high on extroversion rated their performance in enclosed and exposed work-space environments similarly…while individuals scoring low on extroversion [these people were relatively more …
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