Office Design Features and Future Organizational Change toward Supporting Sustainability
Organizational change, influenced by such factors as economics, information and communications technologies (ICTs), and users’ wellbeing, is essential for organizational effectiveness, productivity, and sustainability. Thus, there has been a call for urgent changes in workplace design features to re...
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| description | Organizational change, influenced by such factors as economics, information and communications technologies (ICTs), and users’ wellbeing, is essential for organizational effectiveness, productivity, and sustainability. Thus, there has been a call for urgent changes in workplace design features to respond to future change. This study is concerned with defining the level of change in design features that is needed in existing Saudi governmental workplaces to cope with future visions of sustainability, as well as controlling the cost of such redesigning. It is hypothesized that future challenges related to economics, ICTs, and users’ wellbeing would have a significant impact on the need to change existing workplace design features. Administrator workplaces in three buildings of Saudi organizations and their representative economic, ICT, and wellbeing trends were considered (<i>n</i> = 104, 95, 96). The average level of change in design features in each building was observed and reported. The most changed design features in buildings affected by economic, ICT, and wellbeing trends were minimizing of luxury workplaces, minimizing storage space, and improving thermal/lighting conditions, respectively. However, the most changed design features that were common to all three buildings were spatial and furniture layouts and minimizing storage space. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef354c86bd7e4f8aadfd0805927bb15e2024-01-29T13:49:34ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092024-01-0114126010.3390/buildings14010260Office Design Features and Future Organizational Change toward Supporting SustainabilityAdel M. A. Binyaseen0Department of Architecture, College of Engineering & Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 24381, Saudi ArabiaOrganizational change, influenced by such factors as economics, information and communications technologies (ICTs), and users’ wellbeing, is essential for organizational effectiveness, productivity, and sustainability. Thus, there has been a call for urgent changes in workplace design features to respond to future change. This study is concerned with defining the level of change in design features that is needed in existing Saudi governmental workplaces to cope with future visions of sustainability, as well as controlling the cost of such redesigning. It is hypothesized that future challenges related to economics, ICTs, and users’ wellbeing would have a significant impact on the need to change existing workplace design features. Administrator workplaces in three buildings of Saudi organizations and their representative economic, ICT, and wellbeing trends were considered (<i>n</i> = 104, 95, 96). The average level of change in design features in each building was observed and reported. The most changed design features in buildings affected by economic, ICT, and wellbeing trends were minimizing of luxury workplaces, minimizing storage space, and improving thermal/lighting conditions, respectively. However, the most changed design features that were common to all three buildings were spatial and furniture layouts and minimizing storage space.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/14/1/260office buildingsdesign featuresorganizational changeeconomyICTswellbeing |
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| title | Office Design Features and Future Organizational Change toward Supporting Sustainability |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Office Design Features and Future Organizational Change toward Supporting Sustainability |
| title_short | Office Design Features and Future Organizational Change toward Supporting Sustainability |
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| topic | office buildings design features organizational change economy ICTs wellbeing |
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