Kurzfassung

The paper describes the evaluation of the office environment of the New Worker.
A New Worker is a person, who works, due to a lot of travelling, predominantly in a flexible changing office environment. To establish the basics of a good working environment in general are, the research focuses on the classical German office situation, on a modern flexible open space office, and the New Worker situation on international basis. At all three situations the employees receive a questionnaire about...The paper describes the evaluation of the office environment of the New Worker.
A New Worker is a person, who works, due to a lot of travelling, predominantly in a flexible changing office environment. To establish the basics of a good working environment in general are, the research focuses on the classical German office situation, on a modern flexible open space office, and the New Worker situation on international basis. At all three situations the employees receive a questionnaire about their working environment, regarding the architecture, the room, the places, the techniques of information and communication, the possibility to communicate and the physical aspects. The items of the questionnaire are selected from an item pool generated through expert interviews, the Koblenz Architecture Questionnaire (2008), the Office 21 Questionnaire by the Fraunhofer Institute (2009). The items inquire about the situation today and what is important in the future.
The results of these questionnaires have been compared to find an intersection of the necessary basics of a good working environment, which helps the employees to feel comfortable, to be able to work efficient and to get a good basic for communication.
The aim of the research is to find answers to the following questions:
1. What are the requirements, of an optimal room in a office environment?
2. What are the minimum room and infrastructural needs of a content office environment?
3. How to use technical and room features to create a communication friendly office environment?
4. What is expected of an “office building of the future”?
The methods to receive the statistical results (descriptive statistics, t-Tests, stepwise regression analysis, factor analysis) lean on the procedure by Walden with the Post Tower Evaluation (Walden, forthcoming, in Mallory-Hill, Preiser & Watson (Eds.)) and on the procedure by the Fraunhofer Institute with the Office21 Evaluation.
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