Tulenheimo-Eklund Elina, Haapakangas Annu, Hirvonen Maria, Ruohomäki Virpi, Reijula Kari
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 40, FI-00032 Työterveyslaitos, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, 00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
J Occup Health. 2025 Jan 7;67(1). doi: 10.1093/joccuh/uiaf027.
As digitalization has made knowledge work multilocational, the need for space-efficient, modern-design offices, including activity-based offices, has increased. However, studies of how activity-based offices are related to employee well-being, particularly in hybrid work, are rare. This study investigated whether the perceived activity-based office environment in hybrid work is associated with employee well-being and self-reported work ability.
We used a cross-sectional survey of 971 employees working in activity-based offices in 5 Finnish organizations in 2022. The workplaces were observed, and the employees responded to a survey of their office environment perceptions, well-being, and work ability. The survey covered burnout risk scores, work engagement, daily recovery, self-reported work ability, insomnia, and pain symptoms. We used the regression analysis general linear model to analyze associations between the environmental perceptions and employee outcomes, adjusting for age, gender, supervisory position, and telework frequency or effort-reward imbalance.
Employees' daily recovery and self-reported work ability were better when the employees' office environment perceptions (task privacy, satisfaction with work environment, person-environment fit, workspace support for interaction, ease of workspace switching) were more positive. These associations remained in the adjusted models. Additionally, work engagement increased, and burnout risk scores and insomnia symptoms decreased when workplace conditions were perceived more favorably.
More favorable perceptions of activity-based offices are associated with better employee well-being and self-reported work ability in hybrid work. The perceived office environment seems essential for employee well-being and work ability even when psychosocial aspects (effort-reward imbalance) are taken into account.
随着数字化使知识工作可以在多个地点进行，对空间高效、设计现代的办公室（包括基于活动的办公室）的需求增加了。然而，关于基于活动的办公室如何与员工幸福感相关的研究很少，尤其是在混合工作模式下。本研究调查了混合工作中基于活动的办公室环境感知是否与员工幸福感和自我报告的工作能力相关。
我们于2022年对芬兰5个组织中在基于活动的办公室工作的971名员工进行了横断面调查。观察了工作场所，并让员工对其办公室环境感知、幸福感和工作能力进行调查。该调查涵盖了倦怠风险评分、工作投入度、日常恢复情况、自我报告的工作能力、失眠和疼痛症状。我们使用回归分析通用线性模型来分析环境感知与员工结果之间的关联，并对年龄、性别、监督职位以及远程工作频率或努力-回报失衡进行了调整。
当员工对办公室环境的感知（任务隐私、对工作环境的满意度、人与环境的契合度、工作空间对互动的支持、工作空间切换的便利性）更积极时，员工的日常恢复情况和自我报告的工作能力更好。这些关联在调整后的模型中仍然存在。此外，当对工作场所条件的感知更有利时，工作投入度增加，倦怠风险评分和失眠症状减少。
在混合工作中，对基于活动的办公室更有利的感知与更好的员工幸福感和自我报告的工作能力相关。即使考虑到心理社会因素（努力-回报失衡），感知到的办公室环境似乎对员工幸福感和工作能力也至关重要。
