According to HR Magazine studies shows that the most successful work environments provide a range of spaces-an ecosystem-that allow people to choose where and how they get their jobs done.
Bodin, Rönn, and Danielsson (2008) pointed out that the research on the effect of physical office environment on the individual range over a broad spectrum, including psychology, occupational and environmental medicine, business and management, and architecture. " It is important to bring together the different disciplines so that we may have an opportunity to measure and access the influence of the physical office environment on the employee. So that, an interdisciplinary approach is essential. Its is so important to apply a holistic view to the office environment, since it is the totality of different factors that constitute the actual office environment.
Many global and architecture and design has conducted many research project related to work space.
Based in the study on 2006, 90% of the American believed that the better workplace design and layout resulted in a better employee performance (Gensler, 2006). Enclosed private offices communicate higher status than open plan spaces.
Why is so important to have a physical office?
- Interactions - because employee may be encourage if they saw their colleague are doing the same, and face to face interactions.
- Employee culture bonding - any employee want to know more about their colleague on a personal level which makes more fun as well as conflicts easier to navigate.
- To be realistic - a lot of company today seems like a fly-by-night scheme because they have no office address.
