A STUDY ON EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF OFFICES USING HUMAN AND ORGANIZATIONAL INDICATORS (PART 1): ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF SEATING ENVIRONMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL AND JOB EVALUATION USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

Abstract

We surveyed construction company employees to explore how their seating environment impacts workplace and organizational evaluations, work ease, and job satisfaction. The results showed that “privacy” and “proximity” had direct and indirect effects on “group cohesiveness/clan culture,” “workspace productivity,” “workspace satisfaction,” and “job satisfaction,” and “privacy” has greater effects than “proximity”. We demonstrated that the evaluation of the office seating environment influence and mediate the evaluation of the organization and the ease of performing one’s duties, as well as job satisfaction, and that the strength of these influences varies greatly depending on what the purpose is.