The Impact of Work Place Design on Employee Performance


Most of the people spend their day time hours in the work place.  The day time hours can be considered as active lives hours in a day. Therefore working environment greatly influence their Mental Status, Actions, Abilities, performance and the Productivity.
Better physical environment of workplace will boosts the employees and eventually improve their productivity.
Numerous researchers have stated that cluttered workplaces and unpleasant physical environment are playing a major role in the loss of employees’ productivity and dissatisfaction. (Hameed, 2009).
Modern world business success flow from intangible assets such as ideas, creative knowledge and innovative thinking, (Gensler, 2006).Therefore Employees are with such intangible assets demand of Attractive workplace with unique furniture and spatial arrangements, lighting and heating arrangements, open closed availability which affect to collaboration and teamwork, decision making, monitoring, motivation, communications and social relationships. (Hameed, 2009).
 Effective work Place design must be consist with,
·         Open spaces
·         Interior office design
·         Lightening
·         Temperature and ventilation
·         Noise

Many organizations search for the best ways to improve employees‟ performance and increase their productivity to achieve the targeted goals and objectives, but there are new ways used in big companies gaining good results, through better office design and better working environment.

Reference
Hameed, Amani (2009), Journal of public affairs, administration and management: Impact of Office Design on Employees‟ Productivity: A Case study of Banking Organizations of Abbottabad, Pakistan

Gensler, Well-Designed Office Key to Improving Employee Performance. URL: http://www.gensler.com/viewpoint/publications accessed on 2006

Comments

  1. Brito DanielMay 4, 2019 at 8:04 AM

    The key point of workplace design is creating an office that is fit for its purpose. A great work space takes into account not just what employees need to work in the right way and get the best results in their particular roles, but also what staff need to be happy and motivated at work.

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  2. J Kasun DilshanMay 4, 2019 at 11:03 AM

    Absolutely right, those are very important for good work place in order to keep your staff stress free. But what about physical Helth?

    I thinks now most of corporates are considering physical health of employees is also important. So they have providing gym facilities for their staff.

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  3. Princy JohnMay 8, 2019 at 11:33 AM

    When we talk about working environment it includes, the surrounding, the culture of the company, the design, the flexibility, the facilities and the people in it. It is the responsible of employers to create a positive and suitable environment to employees to work happily and uninterrupted, even though if an employee is motivated so much sometimes it will be difficult to fit into the work environment of the company. In most organizations the employee turnover ratio is high among the probationers since they can’t cope up or fit it into the environment of the company. People are from different backgrounds and their previous work experience would be different, it is important that employers create a suitable work environment for employees to perform well and achieve organizational objectives.

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  4. Mohamed EjazMay 9, 2019 at 4:59 AM

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  5. Mohamed HamdhanMay 11, 2019 at 10:28 PM

    This is an interesting topic, work environment is important to an employee and poor working condition often lead to less desirable results. Also during my studies i learnt about Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) which analyses the scientific side to this story. And this is one of the core areas of green building concepts.
    The following website: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine has a good read about this phenomenon analyzed in scientific context.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796751/ It also gives a scientific based evidence.

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  6. Mohamed EjazMay 12, 2019 at 2:14 AM

    It's a good blog which cover up different ideas on "The impact of work place design on employee performance". And it gives best ideas on how to improve employee performance in present situation.

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