Research Design Connection: Sound in Open Plan Offices
Lee and colleagues confirm how important the soundscape is in open plan offices. After collecting information in China and Korea, the researchers used sophistical statistical techniques to determine that in open plan offices, “job satisfaction and satisfaction with the environment were negatively correlated with lack of speech privacy…[and] longer noise exposure led to decreased job satisfaction.” Pyoung Lee, Byung Lee, Jin Jeon, Mei Zhang, and Jian Kang. 2016. “Impact of Noise on Self-Reported Job Satisfaction and Health in Open-Plan Offices: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.” Ergonomics, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 222-234. Sally Augustin, PhD, a cognitive scientist, is the editor of Research Design Connections (www.researchdesignconnections.com), a monthly subscription newsletter and free daily blog, where recent and classic research in the social, design, and physical sciences that can inform designers’ work are presented in straightforward language. Readers learn about the latest research findings immediately, before they’re available elsewhere. Sally, …
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