Abstract
Factors like colour, light, air quality, environmental conditions, and noise has a great effect on the Health and Performance of office employees. All these factors have the impact on employee’s performance and are the reasons to improve or reduce the level of employee’s working quality and health. The office design, computer usage, and sitting postures affect the muscles, eyes and other body parts. Availability of better office environment and design improve the performance and health of employees to achieve much better and productive outcome from the employees. Following empirical study has investigated the relationship between office workplace design and employee’s health and performance. We conducted a survey on the employees working in the software industry of Pakistan, collected the data from employees through questionnaire. We used Linear Regression for the analysis of the study. The results concluded that workplace design has a significant impact on employee’s health, and have a negative relationship with the employee discomfort level. Results also showed that workplace design has statistically significant impact on employee’s performance.
Highlights
In very industry, the dynamic of work is always different, work pressure and stress may vary in different industries
Ergonomics aims to make sure that tasks, equipment, information and the environment fit each worker [6]
The aim of this study is to observe the result of workplace design on employee‘s health and performance in the software industry of Pakistan
Summary
The dynamic of work is always different, work pressure and stress may vary in different industries. The business world is modelling new ways of doing work and the systems to enrich the innovation and improve the performance of employees, and one of the key entities is office environment (Management Today magazine in a survey 2003). Various studies have concluded that performance of employees is greatly affected by working conditions of the employees [3]. Better working conditions lead to better performance of the employees [4]. Ergonomics is a science concerned with thefit‘ between people and their work. It puts people first, taking account of their capabilities and limitations. Ergonomics aims to make sure that tasks, equipment, information and the environment fit each worker [6]
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