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Associations Between Room Function, Office Design, Workplace Spatial Layout, and Sitting Patterns During Office Work:
Pam Ten Broeke1, Debby G J Beckers, Dick H J Thijssen
1From the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (P.t.B., D.G.J.B., S.A.E.G., E.B.); Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department of Physiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (D.H.J.T.); and Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom (D.H.J.T.).
Objective:
We investigated associations between room function, office design, workplace spatial layout, and office workers' sitting behavior.
Methods:
We analyzed sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transitions of 48 office workers during one work week (accelerometry), all office locations that those workers visited (end-of-day questionnaire), and physical features of those office locations (coded).
Results:
Office workers sat longer in offices than in meeting rooms; stood longer in large, shared offices; stood longer in offices with two workstations compared to one; stood longer in offices that had additional chairs; and sat longer when waste paper bins were out of arm's reach.
Conclusions:
Office workers' sitting patterns are-to some extent-related to workplace design. However, workplace design may impact sitting mainly through the work tasks and/or opportunities for collegial interactions that room designs afford.
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