| dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic is something the world experienced together, yet altered our day-to-day lives in countless diverse ways. Some examples include how we attend school, how and where we exercise, and how we run our typical, weekly errands. For many, the biggest change caused by the pandemic was the impact on the workplace and its interior environment. Many of these changes directly impacted on full-time employees, for instance, the way work tasks were completed, as well as the location tasks were completed in. The purpose of this study is to recognize ways interior designers, architects, and even employers can help to improve employee satisfaction and productivity levels. The study compares similarities and differences of indoor environmental qualities (IEQ), as well as other interior factors like privacy and biophilic design elements, between home and workplace office environments for employees. The study focused solely on full-time employees over the age of eighteen years old who worked any amount of time at home before returning to their workplace. The method of this study used an online survey platform which made it easy to keep the data organized. Survey participants must be older than eighteen years, as well as a full-time employee. The goals of the survey included identifying positive and negative factors relating to the interior workplace environment in hopes of improving employee satisfaction and productivity. The results of this study have reassured that this topic on improving the post-pandemic workplace to better mimic the benefits found working from home is important and critical in the guaranteed improvements to employee satisfaction and productivity regarding the post-pandemic workplace environment.
Keywords: work-from-home, WFH, return-to-office, RTO, return-to-workplace, COVID-19, pandemic, post-pandemic, workplace, satisfaction, production, indoor environmental quality, biophilic design | en_US |
