Invited Symposium Workspaces Reexamined: Implications for Design, Management, and Employee Wellbeing
Sonit Bafna, Ruth Kanfer, Yeinn Oh, Jennifer Egan, Mansi Shah · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2023
The rise in remote work arrangements has accelerated interest in the design of employee workspaces across geographic locations. The rapid expansion of workspaces beyond organizational structures highlights the need for developing a person-centric perspective on work design that takes into account how workers perceive and craft their physical work environment and utilize new technologies, so that strategies for ensuring worker well-being and desired worker outcomes may be developed. The goal of this symposium is to introduce an interdisciplinary approach to this person-centric perspective that draws upon foundational concepts in psychology and architecture, and to delineate a future research agenda with practical implications for organizations and workers in the workplace of the future.