Evaluation of Flexible Offices

Abstract

Two studies of flexible office were made in one private company and one unit in a local government. The aims of the evaluations were slightly different. In the private company sellers and technicians were interviewed about learning and co-operation in the new office. In the local government social workers were asked by a questionnaire and interviews about how their work were influenced by the new environment. The results show that a flexible office is not a general environment suiting all kinds of work; it depends on what is characteristic in the work. The work must be analysed very carefully in order to get knowledge of how the design of the physical environment may support the work activity.