Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy
The office research in environmental psychology that was inspired by the non-territorial office experiments of Allen and his colleagues in 1970, and undertaken since the 1980s, deemed privacy in the open office setting problematic; however, experiments by Allen showed improvements in privacy. Why wa...
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2013-06-01
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| description | The office research in environmental psychology that was inspired by the non-territorial office experiments of Allen and his colleagues in 1970, and undertaken since the 1980s, deemed privacy in the open office setting problematic; however, experiments by Allen showed improvements in privacy. Why was privacy not seen as a problem in Allen’s experiments? The non-territorial office in Allen was not limited to being open; in fact, it also incorporated a free-seating arrangement. Further exploration of Allen’s experiments shows that a free-seating arrangement not only enabled employees to move about the office at will but also facilitated the adjustment of their mutual interaction. As a result, it was thought that privacy had actually improved. In other words, extracting an open setting, which is only one aspect of a non-territorial office space, is insufficient, and thus, free-seating arrangement must also be considered. Doing so increases the possibility of significantly remedying privacy problems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-51ce8c6d332a4c7fb67fcf49e91885932022-12-21T23:02:29ZengGlobal Business Research CenterAnnals of Business Administrative Science1347-44641347-44562013-06-0112311112110.7880/abas.12.111abasPositive Effect of Non-territorial Office on PrivacyNobuyuki INAMIZU0Faculty of Business Sciences, University of TsukubaThe office research in environmental psychology that was inspired by the non-territorial office experiments of Allen and his colleagues in 1970, and undertaken since the 1980s, deemed privacy in the open office setting problematic; however, experiments by Allen showed improvements in privacy. Why was privacy not seen as a problem in Allen’s experiments? The non-territorial office in Allen was not limited to being open; in fact, it also incorporated a free-seating arrangement. Further exploration of Allen’s experiments shows that a free-seating arrangement not only enabled employees to move about the office at will but also facilitated the adjustment of their mutual interaction. As a result, it was thought that privacy had actually improved. In other words, extracting an open setting, which is only one aspect of a non-territorial office space, is insufficient, and thus, free-seating arrangement must also be considered. Doing so increases the possibility of significantly remedying privacy problems.https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/abas/12/3/12_111/_pdf/-char/ennon-territorial officeopen plan officefree seatingprivacy |
| spellingShingle | Nobuyuki INAMIZU Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy Annals of Business Administrative Science non-territorial office open plan office free seating privacy |
| title | Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy |
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| title_short | Positive Effect of Non-territorial Office on Privacy |
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