Open-plan office density and environmental satisfaction

What the study found

Reviews evidence that open-plan density can affect environmental satisfaction and related perceptions.

Limitations

Older office stock and work practices; limited causal designs.

Neurodesign interpretation

Density is often hidden inside the label 'open plan.' Separating it can explain why two visually similar offices feel very different.

Possible design implications

Track square area per occupant separately from enclosure and acoustic conditions.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a density-specific source.

Study design

Technical literature review

Population

Office workers across 19 reviewed studies

Setting

Open-plan offices

Field

Workplace design

Mechanism

Density, environmental satisfaction

Spatial variable

Occupant density, workstation spacing

Keywords

density, open plan, office, satisfaction