Associations Between Room Function, Office Design, Workplace Spatial Layout and Sitting Patterns During Office Work: A Field Study.

Ten Broeke, P ORCID: 0000-0001-7756-5630, Beckers, DGJ ORCID: 0000-0001-8676-0518, Thijssen, DHJ ORCID: 0000-0002-7707-5567, Geurts, SAE ORCID: 0000-0001-5125-5693 and Bijleveld, E ORCID: 0000-0001-5892-3236 Associations Between Room Function, Office Design, Workplace Spatial Layout and Sitting Patterns During Office Work: A Field Study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. ISSN 1076-2752 (Accepted)

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Abstract

Objective
We investigated associations between room function, office design, workplace spatial layout, and office workers’ sitting behavior.

Methods
We analyzed sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transitions of 48 office workers during one work week (accelerometry), all office locations that those workers visited (end-of-day questionnaire), and physical features of those office locations (coded).

Results
Office workers sat longer in offices than in meeting rooms; stood longer in large, shared offices; stood longer in offices with two workstations compared to one; stood longer in offices that had additional chairs; and sat longer when waste paper bins were out of arm’s reach.

Conclusions
Office workers’ sitting patterns are—to some extent—related to workplace design. However, workplace design may impact sitting mainly through the work tasks and/or opportunities for collegial interactions that room designs afford.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	environment; sedentary behaviour; time-to-event analysis; work characteristics; workplace design; 4206 Public Health; 42 Health Sciences; 1110 Nursing; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; Environmental & Occupational Health; 3505 Human resources and industrial relations; 4202 Epidemiology; 4206 Public health
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs Q Science > QP Physiology
Divisions:	Sport and Exercise Sciences
Publisher:	Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Date of acceptance:	5 January 2026
Date of first compliant Open Access:	18 February 2026
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2026 16:11
Last Modified:	18 Feb 2026 16:11
DOI or ID number:	10.1097/jom.0000000000003660
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28122

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