Designing the Contentment: Investigating the Effects of Office Environment and Physical Design on Employee Satisfaction

Abstract

Workplace environment is important for measurement of employee satisfaction in influencing organizations to increase safety awareness, workplace comfort and employee productivity in an organization. It can make employees more comfortable to adjust work so that work is safer, efficient and can increase productivity. Based on previous studies, there are so many factors that affect employee satisfaction in the office environment. Employees will realize that the organization should provide the best conditions to improve employee health and safety. Therefore, this study aims to examine how the office environment and office physical design affects employee satisfaction in selected organizations. Next, this study measures the most contributing factors towards employees' satisfaction in order to ensure the health, comfort and well-being of workers. In addition, the earlier researchers that were involved in this study were mentioned. This study included multiple regression analysis, descriptive analysis, normality analysis, reliability analysis, Pearson's correlation analysis, and determined how the independent and dependent variables relate to one another. This research is based on a sample of 107 respondents. Data for the research was collected mainly through the administration of questionnaires and analyzed statistically using SPSS software to produce results to answer the research objective. The findings of the study showed that both office environment and office physical design have significant influence on employee satisfaction. The result also found that the office environment factor influences more on the employee satisfaction rather than physical office design.