Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of participants (age, educational level) in different office designs split by gender.
| Office Types | Cell Office |
Shared- Room |
Small Open Plan Office |
Med.-Sized Open Plan Office |
Large Open Plan Office |
Hot- Desking 1 |
Combi- Office | Summary of Per-centages |
Sign. Diff. btw Office Designs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Sample (n) = 4352 Women (n) = 2380 Men (n) = 1972 |
n1 = 2084 | n2 = 817 | n3 = 470 | n4 = 229 | n5 = 350 | n6 = 321 | n7 = 81 | ||
| Gender | ≤0001 (***) | ||||||||
| Women | 1089 (46) | 459 (19) | 279 (12) | 128 (05) | 172 (07) | 205 (09) | 48 (02) | ~100.0 | |
| Men | 995(50) | 358 (18) | 191 (10) | 101 (05) | 178 (09) | 116 (06) | 33 (02) | ~100.0 | |
| Age a | ≤0001 (***) | ||||||||
| Women | 51.5 | 50 | 48 | 47.5 | 46 | 48.5 | 47 | ||
| Men | 52.5 | 49 | 49 | 47.5 | 48 | 48.5 | 52 | ||
| Education b,c | |||||||||
| Women | ≤0001 (***) | ||||||||
| (1) Low level | 210 (42) | 105 (21) | 49(10) | 36 (07) | 34 (07) | 60 (12) | 11 (02) | ~100.0 | |
| (2) Middle high level | 377 (45) | 161 (19) | 96(11) | 40 (05) | 68 (08) | 78 (09) | 22 (03) | ~100.0 | |
| (3) High level | 502 (49) | 193 (19) | 134 (13) | 52 (05) | 70 (07) | 67 (06) | 15 (01) | ~100.0 | |
| Men | ≤0001 (***) | ||||||||
| (1) Low level | 284 (54) | 101 (19) | 44 (08) | 16 (03) | 29 (05) | 45 (09) | 9 (02) | ~100.0 | |
| (2) Middle high level | 357 (47) | 132 (18) | 84 (11) | 42 (06) | 76 (10) | 51 (07) | 10 (01) | ~100.0 | |
| (3) High level | 354 (51) | 125 (18) | 63 (09) | 43 (06) | 73 (11) | 20 (03) | 14 (02) | ~100.0 |
Note: Figures in parentheses are percentages calculated row wise. 1 = hot-desking is a not an office type, but a subgroup of the office type flex-office. a = mean age of employees in office design. b = number of male and female employees is based on the age analyses. c Educational levels: low level = up to senior high, middle high level = senior high school education, high level = college/university education. The significance levels refer to total analyses of differences between office designs with regard to gender, age, and educational level *** = p ≤ 0.001.