The Underground Office: Changing Perceptions and Increasing Employee Satisfaction
Priorities for office environment continue to evolve. As people spend significant time at work, the need for employee satisfaction is increasingly important. This thesis provides a possible solution to increase satisfaction in an underground office environment. These environments often lack in windo...
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| Summary: | Priorities for office environment continue to evolve. As people spend significant time at work, the need for employee satisfaction is increasingly important. This thesis provides a possible solution to increase satisfaction in an underground office environment. These environments often lack in windows, or a view, and most often, a negative perception is associated with them. The creation of this study's design for a scientific company that grows experimental plants underground aims to address negative perceptions of such spaces in order to speak to workers' health and well being in the absence of above ground windows. This project's original research analyzes the viability of various types of views and nature contact that are feasible to be placed in an underground working environment. These findings become groundwork for design considerations, which drive final design decisions in the project's design solution. The goal is to create an exciting and welcoming underground office, which attends to the need for views as well as increasing employee satisfaction. === A Thesis submitted to the College of Visual Arts, Theater, and Dance in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts. === Summer Semester, 2012. === June 22, 2012. === Includes bibliographical references. === Jill Pable, Professor Directing Thesis; Marlo Ransdell, Committee Member; Jim Dawkins, Committee Member. |
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