A Quasi-Experimental Exploration of Activity-Based Flexible Office Design and Demographic Differences in Employee Absenteeism

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
A. Lauterbach, Florian Kunze
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Abstract

This study examines whether transitioning from cellular offices to an activity-based flexible office (A-FO) impacts employee absenteeism over time. Based on privacy theory, we hypothesized that changing from cell offices to an A-FO setting would lead to increased employee absenteeism. We further assumed that longer-tenured and female employees would experience greater difficulty with the transition, leading to more absenteeism among these groups. Using a sample of 2,017 white-collar workers tracked over 8 years, we quasi-experimentally investigated if absenteeism in the group with the office design intervention (1,035 individuals) differed from the control group (982 individuals). In the difference-in-difference (DiD) framework, nested negative binomial regression showed no difference in absenteeism between the intervention and control groups. However, a three-way interaction revealed that long-term employees showed higher absenteeism when switching to an A-FO. We discuss our contributions and the implications for corporate leadership, human resources, and change management.
基于活动的灵活办公设计与员工缺勤的人口统计学差异的准实验探索
本研究考察了从蜂窝办公室过渡到基于活动的灵活办公室(A-FO)是否会随着时间的推移影响员工的缺勤。基于隐私理论,我们假设从单元办公室转变为A-FO设置会导致员工缺勤率增加。我们进一步假设,长期员工和女性员工在转型过程中会遇到更大的困难,从而导致这些群体中出现更多的缺勤现象。我们对2017名白领进行了为期8年的跟踪调查,以准实验的方式调查了办公室设计干预组(1035人)与对照组(982人)的缺勤率是否存在差异。在差异中差异(DiD)框架中,嵌套负二项回归显示干预组和对照组的缺勤率无差异。然而,三方互动显示,长期员工在转换为a - fo时,缺勤率更高。我们将讨论我们的贡献以及对企业领导力、人力资源和变革管理的影响。
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CiteScore
13.30
自引率
1.80%
发文量
13
期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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