The outdoor office: a pilot study of environmental qualities, experiences of office workers, and work-related well-being.

ABSTRACT: Outdoor office work is an emerging aspect of the concept of 'new ways of working', but only sparse data are available about the environmental qualities of the outdoor office space, experiences of office workers, and work-related well-being of outdoor office work. Here, we present an exploratory pilot study on well-being and outdoor office work in a public urban space. An outdoor office was set up in the courtyard of a university campus, and the participants (n = 16) conducted office work outdoors for 30 min and thereafter participated in an eye-tracking session for 11-15 min (n = 8) and subsequently filled out surveys (n = 16). The eye tracker allowed the discovery of natural and built elements in the outdoor environment that caught the participants' visual attention,

SUBMITTER: Soderlund C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10758605 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature