Jun 05, 2020 16:12:00

What are the free address offices that keep people from focusing?

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free address ' is that you can work freely in the office without fixing the correspondence between people and seats, and the ' free address ' further expands your thinking and allows you to freely choose the place to work inside or outside the office. We are deriving derivative forms such as ' ABW (Activity Based Working)' and ' Hot Desking ' where multiple people share one desk or computer.

One of the core issues for this 'free address' is 'how to keep the worker's concentration good.' If you can measure the level of concentration of workers at various free addresses, you should be able to find the 'appropriate form of free address'. Based on this idea, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman and others at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) devised and actually tested an environmental physics system to determine 'how concentrated the workers are.'

An Ambient-Physical System to Infer Concentration in Open-plan Workplace-IEEE Journals & Magazine
https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.2996219

Can't concentrate at work? This AI system knows why
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-06-ai.html

RMIT's research team worked with a global design firm, Arup, to test AI-powered systems over two weeks on 31 staff members at two ABW offices.

As a result, we found that each staff member has a favorite place such as “beside the window”, “near the kitchen”, “near the boss”, and if they cannot secure the place, their concentration will decrease.

One of the factors that made me feel comfortable and focused no matter where I was sitting was room temperature . Most people felt that it was too cold to concentrate at 22.5°C or less, and became more sensitive to room temperature over the working hours. Not surprisingly, the quality of sleep the night before also had a major effect on concentration.

In addition, the number of meetings has an effect on concentration, and the number of people who attended many meetings was lower than those who attended less. Some people use 'rough meetings' to reduce the number of meetings, but for others this kind of meeting seems to be just as distracting as meetings.

In addition, Lahman noted that the concentration of carbon dioxide at the time of high population density in the office hinders concentration. “In the office design, high-quality air conditioning and heating ventilation systems and foliage plants reduce carbon dioxide. It shows how important it is for us.'