Table 5.

Office Designs—Including six office types and one sub-group to an office type.

Architectural Features	Functional Features
1.Cell office (individual office room)
-The plan layout is characterized by corridors (single or double corridor system)	-Most equipment is in the own room. Work is concentrated and independent
-Individual room has access to a window
2.Shared room office: (2–3 people share room)—It is sometimes a consequence of lack of workspace.
-Workstations freely arranged in the room -For privacy reasons, sometimes screens or other divisional elements between workstations	Team-based work or people with similar work assignment work share room
-No individual window, shares with room mate(s)	-Most equipment outside of room, team-based shared rooms tend to have own equipment in room
Traditional open-plan offices: Employees share workspace in various configurations. Open-plan offices exist in three sub-categories:
3.Small open plan office: (4–9 people share workspace) 4.Medium-sized open plan office (10–24 share workspace) 5.Large open plan office (>24 people share workspace)
-Shared workspaces within the office	-Flexible for organizational changes
-Plan layout is open, based on an open flow of workspaces instead of corridor systems	-Routine-based work -Low level of interaction between employees
-Workstations freely arranged in the room or in rows in a larger workspace	-Often no amenities at workstation
Activity-based and flexible office types: a
6.Hot-desking office (sub-group to the office type Flex-office, holding only some of its features)
-Plan layout is open	-Flexible for organizational changes -Dimensioned for <70% of the workforce -The choice of workstation is free, has the option to work -outside of office as well -Good information communication technology (ICT) is a -necessity as the common computer system is accessible -from all workstations within the office
	-Independent work, not always with high autonomy or decision authority
7.Combi-office: (team work and sharing of workspace and common facilities)
-No strict spatial definition, personal workstations can be either individual rooms or open plan office -Back up spaces for work activities not suitable to carry out at the personal workstation -Extra focus on rooms for group activities such as: project rooms (to be booked for longer periods) team and meeting rooms	->20% of the work in the office not at personal work station -Sharing of common amenities in common spaces -Work is both independent as well as interactive team work with colleagues in -Work is both independent and interactive team work -Team moves around in the office on an “as-needed basis” -to take advantage of the wide range of common facilities

^a = The activity-based category of office types holds flex-office and combi-office. In this table the category name is kept although flex-office is not represented in the study, but its sub-group hot-desking office. This sub-group does not hold any of the architectural features of flex-office that are activity-supportive or functional features of flex-office such as independent work with a high degree of autonomy and decision authority.