OPEN OFFICES

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OPEN OFFICES
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Why open offices were designed?

• Open offices provide time saving
• Open offices lead to information being freely
  shared.
• Open offices help to decrease construction time
  and cost.
• Tacit learning is in the same way as on the job
  training.

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Why open offices were designed?

• Open offices are more effective. Because
  employees motivate each other.
• Employees are always under control.

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• However afterwards some disadvantages
• came out.

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Foreign Languages Office in Izmir
University of Economics
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• Our aim is to know does open office
• affect the instructors and students also
  in which way it affects

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Hypotesis

• Open office affects productivity of instructors
• negatively.
• Open office causes some problems such as lack
• of privacy and hierarchy.

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Methodology

• We use survey and interview methods in our
  research.
• We prepared questions about foreign languages
  office and we put our surveys on their tables.
• Also we talked some of them face to face.

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• Result of our research, we listed their wishes,
• complains and pleasure.
• Pleasures
• Easy to share information
• Personal computers
• Terrace
• Finding solutions easily

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Complains

• Lack of privacy
• Lack of security
• Feeling of crowding
• Air conditioning
• HVAC
• Communication problems with students
• Stressful working environment
• Colors
• Noise pollution
• Radiation
• Concentration problem
• Ergonomic problems

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Wishes

• The place for office hours
• Resting area
• More storage
• WC
• Place for communication with students

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Solutions

• Providing privacy
• -Increasing level of panels
• Providing security
• -ID cards should be used while entering
• Feeling of crowding
• -Task lighting,wayfinding,legibility

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Solutions

• Air conditioning
• -Air conditioning units should be placed
  homogeneiously (not aligned on a line)
• HVAC
• -HVAC system of office should be seperated
  from kitchens.
• Communication problems with students
• -There should be a telephone out of the
  office. Also terrace can be used as common area
  for students and instructors.

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Solutions

• Stressful working environment
• -Colors should be arranged properly and noise
  should be prevented.
• Colors
• -Cool colors should be used. However vibrant
  colors should be applied slightly.

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Solutions

• Noise pollution
• -Acoustical materials should be used such as
  carpet, acoustical panels. Also we can masking
  the noise.
• Radiation
• -Anti-radiation tools can be used to decrease
  radiation.

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Solutions

• Concentration problems
• -We aim to solve this problem with
  lighting,colors ad security solutions.
• Ergonomic problems
• -Chairs and tables should be rearranged
  according to computers properly.Also they should
  be ergonomic.

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References

• Designing Commercial Interiors - Christine M.
  Piotrowski, Elizabeth A. Rogers
• The Office Interior Design Guide Julie K.
  Rayfield New Space 3 - Office
• http//www.archiworld-pa.com
• http//blog.milliyet.com.tr/Blog.aspx?BlogNo1684
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• http//www.farketing.com/2005/08/ak_ofis_yeterin.
  html
• http//www.doublekeyf.com/saglik/1761684796-acik-o
  fisler-neden-kotu.html

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• THANK YOU
• FOR
• ATTENTION
• Nilüfer Akova Nihan Alparslan
  Müge Yelken