| Abstract [eng] |
Every working person spends at least a third of the day at work, so not only a lot of time, but also effort is devoted to work activities. A time-consuming work environment is one of the factors directly related to the well-being of office workers. These days, there is a tendency for a large number of organizations to set up open plan offices, the main purpose of which is to reduce construction and installation costs and to promote and improve internal communication. However, business organizations are increasingly focusing on employee well-being and realizing the importance of its assurance, since the well-being of the employees and their performance at work are directly related. It is noted that not only are organizations developing a tendency of setting up open plan offices, but they are also facing the challenge of attracting and retaining motivated and skilled employees, which adheres to forcing organizations to compete with each other for competent and talented employees, that are currently spanning four generations – the Baby boomers, X, Y and Z. It is observed that all these generations have different values and attitudes towards work and have distinctive expectations for the physical workplace. The links beween open workplaces and employee well-being are widely explored in the academic literature, but research on the well-being of the different generations of employees in these offices is still limited. For this reason, this paper examines the links between open workplaces and the well-being of different generations of workers in more detail. |
