Table A1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of participants in different office designs split by gender.
| Office Designs | Cell- Office |
Shared- Room |
Small Open Open Plan |
Med.-Sized Open Plan |
Large Open Plan Office |
Hot- Desking 1 |
Combi- Office |
Sign. Diff. btw Office Designs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Sample (n) = 4352 Women (n) a = 2380, Men (n) a = 1972 |
n1 = 2084 | n2 = 817 | n3 = 470 | n4 = 229 | n5 = 350 | n6 = 321 | n7 = 81 | |
| Job rank (SEI) | ≤0.001 | |||||||
| Women | ||||||||
| (5) Unskilled manual workers | 15 (1.4) | 17 (3.7) | 8 (2.9) | 4 (3.2) | - | 32 (15.6) | 28 (8) | |
| (4) Skilled manual workers | 12 (1.1) | 14 (3) | 5 (1.8) | 6 (4.7) | - | 35 (17.1) | 39 (11) | |
| (3) White collar worker—lower level | 242 (22) | 129 (28.1) | 54 (19.5) | 28 (22) | 43 (25.3) | 32 (15.6) | 45 (12.7) | |
| (2) White collar worker—middle level | 367 (33.8) | 184 (40.1) | 147 (53.1) | 58 (45.7) | 70 (41.2) | 81 (39.5) | 118 (3.3) | |
| (1) White collar worker—higher level | 427 (39.4) | 109 (23.7) | 59 (21.3) | 29 (23) | 53 (32) | 20 (9.6) | 103 (29) | |
| (0) Self-employed | 3 (0.3) | - | - | - | - | 1 (0.5) | 1 (2.8) | |
| Missing information | 19 (1.8) | 6 (1.3) | 4 (1.4) | 2 (1.6) | 4 (2.6) | 4 (1.95) | 20 (5.65) | |
| Summary of percentage | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | |
| Men | ||||||||
| (5) Unskilled manual workers | 34 (3.4) | 28 (7.9) | 6 (3.1) | 2 (2) | 4 (2.3) | 26 (22.4) | 2 (6) | |
| (4) Skilled manual workers | 43 (4.6) | 39 (11) | 10 (5.2) | 5 (5) | 5 (2.8) | 25 (21.6) | 4 (12) | |
| (3) White collar worker—lower level | 137 (13.9) | 45 (12.7) | 23 (12) | 7 (6.9) | 9 (5.1) | 15 (12.9) | 1 (3) | |
| (2) White collar worker—middle level | 338 (34.2) | 118 (33) | 97 (50.8) | 47 (46.5) | 69 (39) | 24 (20.7) | 10 (30) | |
| (1) White collar worker—higher level | 399 (40.4) | 103 (29.1) | 51 (26.7) | 36 (35.6) | 83 (47) | 20 (17.2) | 16 (48.5) | |
| (0) Self-employed | 13 (1.3) | 1 (0.3) | - | - | - | 2 (1.7) | - | |
| Missing information | 24 (2.4) | 20 (5.7) | 4 (2.1) | 4 (4.0) | 7 (4) | 4 (3.5) | - | |
| Summary of percentage | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | |
| Supervisory position | ≤0.001 | |||||||
| Women | ||||||||
| (1) No supervisory position | 697 (65) | 308 (69) | 210 (75.5) | 98 (77) | 113 (67) | 136 (68) | 21 (44.7) | |
| (2) Supervisory position not manager | 140 (13) | 84 (19) | 46 (16.5) | 19 (15) | 33 (20) | 50 (25) | 21 (44.7) | |
| (3) Manager without staff responsibility | 33 (3) | 10 (2) | 8 (3) | 3 (2) | 5 (3) | 2 (1) | 1 (2) | |
| (4) Manager with staff responsibility | 202 (19) | 42 (9.5) | 14 (5) | 8 (6) | 17 (10) | 13 (6) | 4 (8.5) | |
| Summary of percentage | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | |
| Men | ||||||||
| (1) No supervisory position | 447 (46) | 189 (54) | 121 (64) | 56 (57) | 100 (57.5) | 72 (63) | 15 (45.5) | |
| (2) Supervisory position not manager | 138 (14) | 92(26) | 31 (16) | 23 (23) | 39 (22.5) | 28 (25) | 8 (24) | |
| (3) Manager without staff responsibility | 75 (7) | 14 (4) | 15 (8) | 6 (6) | 16 (9) | 5 (4) | 5 (15.2) | |
| (4) Manager with staff responsibility | 321 (33) | 57 (16) | 23 (12) | 14 (14) | 19 (11) | 9 (8) | 5 (15.2) | |
| Summary of percentage | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 | ~100.0 |
Note: Figures in parentheses are percentages calculated column wise. 1 = hot-desking is a not an office type, but a subgroup of the office type flex-office. a = number of male and female employees is based on the age analyses in Table 1.