Bodin Danielsson Christina, Chungkham Holendro Singh, Wulff Cornelia, Westerlund Hugo
a The Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University , SE-106 91 Stockholm , Sweden.
Ergonomics. 2014;57(2):139-47. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2013.871064. Epub 2014 Jan 27.
The effect of office type on sickness absence among office employees was studied prospectively in 1852 employees working in (1) cell-offices; (2) shared-room offices; (3) small, (4) medium-sized and (5) large open-plan offices; (6) flex-offices and (7) combi-offices. Sick leaves were self-reported two years later as number of (a) short and (b) long (medically certified) sick leave spells as well as (c) total number of sick leave days. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used, with adjustment for background factors. A significant excess risk for sickness absence was found only in terms of short sick leave spells in the three open-plan offices. In the gender separate analysis, this remained for women, whereas men had a significantly increased risk in flex-offices. For long sick leave spells, a significantly higher risk was found among women in large open-plan offices and for total number of sick days among men in flex-offices.
A prospective study of the office environment's effect on employees is motivated by the high rates of sick leaves in the workforce. The results indicate differences between office types, depending on the number of people sharing workspace and the opportunity to exert personal control as influenced by the features that define the office types.
对1852名办公室员工进行前瞻性研究，探讨办公类型对员工病假缺勤的影响。这些员工分别在以下几种办公环境中工作：（1）独立办公室；（2）共享房间办公室；（3）小型、（4）中型和（5）大型开放式办公室；（6）灵活办公区和（7）组合办公区。两年后，员工自行报告病假情况，包括（a）短期病假次数、（b）长期（有医疗证明）病假次数以及（c）病假总天数。采用多因素逻辑回归分析，并对背景因素进行了调整。仅在三种开放式办公室中发现短期病假缺勤存在显著的额外风险。在按性别分别进行的分析中，女性在这方面的风险依然存在，而男性在灵活办公区的风险显著增加。对于长期病假，在大型开放式办公室工作的女性风险显著更高，在灵活办公区工作的男性病假总天数风险显著更高。
鉴于劳动力中病假率较高，对办公环境对员工影响进行了前瞻性研究。结果表明，办公类型之间存在差异，这取决于共享工作空间的人数以及受办公类型特征影响的个人控制机会。
