TY - CONF
T1 - The influence of lunch breaks on afternoon productivity
AU - Itoh, Anri
AU - Tanabe, Shinichi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by Azbil Co., and Shin Nippon Air Technologies Co. and other companies. The authors acknowledge people supporting us to measure the building and answering the questionnaire.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Healthy Buildings Europe 2015, HB 2015 - Conference Proceedings. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Recently, intellectual productivity has been considered important for working in offices. The factors that affect intellectual productivity during work include the indoor environment, tiredness, and job motivation. Activities such as social communication or refreshing oneself that lead to recovery from tiredness or increased motivation often take place during the lunch break. In this study, a questionnaire survey as well as physical environmental measurements and visual inspections were conducted to capture the effect of lunch breaks on office workers’ intellectual productivity in the afternoon. Workers tended to be satisfied with the space when the room temperature or CO2 concentration was lower. Workers who took naps, used the cafeteria or a relaxation space, or had high expectations of recovering from fatigue tended to report that their work efficiency increased. Further, there was tendency that the number of actions to recover from fatigue in the afternoon decreased as compared with those in the morning for those who had better satisfaction with the space where they spent most of their time during the lunch break. This suggests that how workers spend their lunch break has a positive impact on their afternoon productivity.
AB - Recently, intellectual productivity has been considered important for working in offices. The factors that affect intellectual productivity during work include the indoor environment, tiredness, and job motivation. Activities such as social communication or refreshing oneself that lead to recovery from tiredness or increased motivation often take place during the lunch break. In this study, a questionnaire survey as well as physical environmental measurements and visual inspections were conducted to capture the effect of lunch breaks on office workers’ intellectual productivity in the afternoon. Workers tended to be satisfied with the space when the room temperature or CO2 concentration was lower. Workers who took naps, used the cafeteria or a relaxation space, or had high expectations of recovering from fatigue tended to report that their work efficiency increased. Further, there was tendency that the number of actions to recover from fatigue in the afternoon decreased as compared with those in the morning for those who had better satisfaction with the space where they spent most of their time during the lunch break. This suggests that how workers spend their lunch break has a positive impact on their afternoon productivity.
KW - Indoor environment
KW - Lunch break
KW - Productivity
KW - Questionnaire
KW - Visual inspection
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M3 - Paper
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T2 - Healthy Buildings Europe 2015, HB 2015
Y2 - 18 May 2015 through 20 May 2015
ER -