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Open plan office noise is stressful: Multimodal stress detection in a simulated work environment
Covid-induced changes in the workplace present a timely opportunity for human resource management practitioners to consider and remediate the deleterious effects of noise, a commonly cited complaint of employees working in open-plan office environments. There is little experimental research comprehensively investigating the effects of noise on employees in terms of their cognitive performance, physiological indicators of stress, and affect. Employing a simulated office setting, we compared the effects of a typical open-plan office auditory environment to a quieter private office auditory environment on a range of objective and subjective measures of well-being and performance. While open plan office noise did not reduce immediate cognitive task performance compared to the quieter environment, it did reduce psychological well-being as evidenced by self-reports of mood, facial expressions of emotion, and physiological indicators of stress in the form of heartrate and skin conductivity. Our research highlights the importance of using a multimodal approach to assess the impact of workplace stressors such as noise.
Open plan office noise is stressful: Multimodal stress detection in a simulated work environment
Covid-induced changes in the workplace present a timely opportunity for human resource management practitioners to consider and remediate the deleterious effects of noise, a commonly cited complaint of employees working in open-plan office environments. There is little experimental research comprehensively investigating the effects of noise on employees in terms of their cognitive performance, physiological indicators of stress, and affect. Employing a simulated office setting, we compared the effects of a typical open-plan office auditory environment to a quieter private office auditory environment on a range of objective and subjective measures of well-being and performance. While open plan office noise did not reduce immediate cognitive task performance compared to the quieter environment, it did reduce psychological well-being as evidenced by self-reports of mood, facial expressions of emotion, and physiological indicators of stress in the form of heartrate and skin conductivity. Our research highlights the importance of using a multimodal approach to assess the impact of workplace stressors such as noise.
Open plan office noise is stressful: Multimodal stress detection in a simulated work environment
Sander, Elizabeth J (author) / Marques, Cecelia (author) / Baumann, Oliver (author) / Birt, James R. (author) / Stead, Matthew (author)
2021-10-25
Sander , E J , Marques , C , Baumann , O , Birt , J R & Stead , M 2021 , ' Open plan office noise is stressful: Multimodal stress detection in a simulated work environment ' , Paper presented at EuroNoise 2021 and 52nd Spanish Congress of Acoustics- TECNIACUSTICA 2021 , Madeira , Portugal , 25/10/21 - 27/10/21 . < http://www.sea-acustica.es/fileadmin/Madeira21/ID6.pdf >
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710
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