Guo, X; Wu, H; Chen, Y; Chang, Y and Ao, Y (2023) Gauging the impact of personal lifestyle, indoor environmental quality and work-related factors on occupant productivity when working from home. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 30(8), pp. 3713-3730. ISSN 0969-9988
Abstract
Purpose: Personal lifestyle, work environments and work-related factors can significantly affect occupant productivity. Although many studies examine the affecting factors of occupant productivity in offices, explorations for the home-based work environment, which is designed mainly for living purposes, are still scarce. Moreover, current pandemic has made work from home a new normal for workers around the world. Therefore, it is important to identify key causal factors of occupant productivity when working from home. Design/methodology/approach: This study employed descriptive analysis and regression analysis method to explore the relationship among personal lifestyle, indoor environmental quality and work-related factors toward occupant productivity. A questionnaire including a comprehensive list of key measures was designed and 189 valid responses were collected from more than 13,000 participants. Findings: Results show that a healthy lifestyle, the perceived satisfaction of visual and acoustic environment, communication, interest in work, workload, flexible schedule and privacy positively affect occupant productivity when working from home, while coffee consumption, outside views and windows have negative effect. Originality/value: Opportunities to enhance occupants' home-based work productivity include developing a healthy lifestyle by taking advantage of flexible schedule, equipping a working room at home with advanced and intelligent environment control systems, and improving communication, workload and schedule by changing the policy of companies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | indoor environmental quality; offices; personal lifestyle; productivity; regression model; satisfaction; work-related factor; working from home |
| Index terms: | work environment, indoor environmental quality, regression analysis, regression model, pandemic, satisfaction, productivity, lifestyle, exploration, methodology, window, control system, questionnaire, privacy, consumption, workload |
| Subjects: | data collection methods, consumer economics, environmental resource management, project delivery, research methods, architectural elements, health risk and incident analysis, management, monitoring and control, demography, environmental health, statistical analysis, professional ethics |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Urban Studies, Legal Issues, Design Practice, Human Resources, Stakeholder Management, Sustainability, Health and Safety, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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