The effects of activity-based workplaces on contributors to organizational productivity

What the study found

Activity-based workplaces can support some productivity contributors but focus and task-space fit remain recurring challenges.

Limitations

Outcome definitions vary; implementation quality and organizational culture strongly modify effects.

Neurodesign interpretation

Choice only becomes a neurodesign benefit when an appropriate environment is actually available at the moment the task changes.

Possible design implications

Provide enough differentiated settings that choice is real rather than nominal.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain for the workplace-choice branch of the corpus.

Study design

Systematic review

Population

Office workers

Setting

Activity-based workplaces

Field

Workplace design

Mechanism

Choice, task-space fit, attention

Spatial variable

Activity-based workplace configuration

Keywords

activity based working, choice, focus, office