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Workers in open-plan offices are more active and less stressed than those with desks in cubicles or private offices, research suggests. This could be because they make the effort to find privacy to talk away from their desk, the researchers said. The US study used chest sensors to track movement and heart rate in hundreds of people in different buildings over three days.
The potential health benefits should not be ignored, they said.
But they said the study was observational only and factors like location of stairs and lifts could be at play too.
The University of Arizona study, published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine, claims to be the first to measure activity and stress in office workers, rather than asking them in a survey.
It said office workers tended to be a sedentary group compared to other workers, making them more likely to have health issues, including heart problems, tiredness and low mood.
Being less active during working hours has also been linked to greater feelings of stress. In the study of 231 office workers in government buildings in the US, those in open-plan offices - with no partitions between desks - clocked up 32% more physical activity than workers in private offices and 20% more than those in cubicles.
And those who were more active had 14% lower levels of stress outside the office compared to those who were less active.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45247799
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:18PM (6 children)
What's an "SVP"?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:13PM (1 child)
Companies learned long ago that if you give people a fancy sounding title, then they will take less money due to the prestige. So our hierarchy goes like this: Chairman of the Board; Vice-chairs of the board; the board; the President; 5(?) C*Os (e.g. CEO, CFO, CTO, COO); the ~15 SEVPs (Senior Executive Vice Presidents) of a specific area, such as accounting, or facilities, or legal; then comes the countless EVPs (Executive Vice Presidents) of whatever; SVP (Senior Vice Presidents) of whatever; VPs (Vice Presidents) of whatever; GMs (General Managers) of whatever; Seniors (as in Senior Job Title), (this level just uses the job title); and, finally, juniors (Junior Job title).
Hope that clears things up and helps illustrate how job titles in Corporate America are on a giant euphemism treadmill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:31PM
Oh, and fun fact. I'm a "General Manager" despite the fact that I have evaluation powers over nobody. It is literally the next step up from my last job as a Senior. They don't even ask me how my secretary is doing (sorry, I meant my Senior Legal Assistant, Compliance). Instead, she reports to the Senior Vice President of Legal Paraprofessionals.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:17PM (1 child)
SVP = Senior Vice-President
VP = Vice-President
They are predominantly American (USA) titles that indicate the relative position in an office hierarchy. SVP outranks VP.
'C-level' indicates someone on a company's board - like Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Financial Officer (CIO)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:06PM
EVP = Executive Vice President
(I happen to have the ear of one of those, and on occasion it is a good thing.)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:42PM
senior vice president
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:55PM
Lots of people have answered this correctly, but I think they're all a little bit wrong too.
After working at a massive US-owned multi-national for a few years now I think a Senior Vice President is someone who once ran a part of the business, and was promoted into a role he (or she) has no clue about and in the intervening time lost any insight into the part of the business they did understand.
They then travel around the company asking irrelevant questions about things they don't understand and starting expensive and pointless projects that do nothing useful until they're found out and "retire".
At least that's how we do it.