TY - JOUR
T1 - Gauging the impact of personal lifestyle, indoor environmental quality and work-related factors on occupant productivity when working from home
AU - Guo, Xingzhou
AU - Wu, Hongyue
AU - Chen, Yunfeng
AU - Chang, Yuan
AU - Ao, Yibin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2023/9/1
Y1 - 2023/9/1
N2 - Purpose: Personal lifestyle, work environments and work-related factors can significantly affect occupant productivity. Although many studies examine the affecting factors of occupant productivity in offices, explorations for the home-based work environment, which is designed mainly for living purposes, are still scarce. Moreover, current pandemic has made work from home a new normal for workers around the world. Therefore, it is important to identify key causal factors of occupant productivity when working from home. Design/methodology/approach: This study employed descriptive analysis and regression analysis method to explore the relationship among personal lifestyle, indoor environmental quality and work-related factors toward occupant productivity. A questionnaire including a comprehensive list of key measures was designed and 189 valid responses were collected from more than 13,000 participants. Findings: Results show that a healthy lifestyle, the perceived satisfaction of visual and acoustic environment, communication, interest in work, workload, flexible schedule and privacy positively affect occupant productivity when working from home, while coffee consumption, outside views and windows have negative effect. Originality/value: Opportunities to enhance occupants' home-based work productivity include developing a healthy lifestyle by taking advantage of flexible schedule, equipping a working room at home with advanced and intelligent environment control systems, and improving communication, workload and schedule by changing the policy of companies.
AB - Purpose: Personal lifestyle, work environments and work-related factors can significantly affect occupant productivity. Although many studies examine the affecting factors of occupant productivity in offices, explorations for the home-based work environment, which is designed mainly for living purposes, are still scarce. Moreover, current pandemic has made work from home a new normal for workers around the world. Therefore, it is important to identify key causal factors of occupant productivity when working from home. Design/methodology/approach: This study employed descriptive analysis and regression analysis method to explore the relationship among personal lifestyle, indoor environmental quality and work-related factors toward occupant productivity. A questionnaire including a comprehensive list of key measures was designed and 189 valid responses were collected from more than 13,000 participants. Findings: Results show that a healthy lifestyle, the perceived satisfaction of visual and acoustic environment, communication, interest in work, workload, flexible schedule and privacy positively affect occupant productivity when working from home, while coffee consumption, outside views and windows have negative effect. Originality/value: Opportunities to enhance occupants' home-based work productivity include developing a healthy lifestyle by taking advantage of flexible schedule, equipping a working room at home with advanced and intelligent environment control systems, and improving communication, workload and schedule by changing the policy of companies.
KW - Indoor environmental quality
KW - Offices
KW - Personal lifestyle
KW - Productivity
KW - Regression model
KW - Satisfaction
KW - Work-related factor
KW - Working from home
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U2 - 10.1108/ECAM-10-2021-0941
DO - 10.1108/ECAM-10-2021-0941
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122778029
SN - 0969-9988
VL - 30
SP - 3713
EP - 3730
JO - Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
JF - Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
IS - 8
ER -