How is your new office? A meta‐analytic review of activity‐based offices' theoretical foundations and empirical outcomes
这篇元分析整合了35项研究、133个效应量，发现活动型办公室能增加身体活动和同事接触、降低工作压力，但也增加工作需求，而隐私和自主性的效果不确定。
Abstract As organizations adopt cost‐effective, space‐saving office concepts, activity‐based offices (ABOs) have become increasingly common. Yet, findings on their consequences for employees remain inconsistent and fragmented across disciplines. This study presents the first meta‐analytic review to synthesize the theoretical arguments and quantitative evidence on ABOs. Despite disciplinary diversity, the theoretical perspectives across the ABO literature converge on the idea that changes in the physical work environment can influence job demands and resources, affective experiences and behavioural regulation. Our Bayesian analysis integrates 133 effect sizes from 35 studies ( N = 7,959) across diverse industries and countries. We find robust evidence that ABOs increase physical activity and coworker contact and decrease work stress while also increasing job demands. However, the most often theorized outcomes, privacy and autonomy, remain uncertain. Boundary condition analyses revealed more favourable outcomes in private organizations and when ABOs were compared to open offices. Overall, ABOs may be a mobility‐ and collaboration‐promoting environment under certain conditions, but they are not a universal solution. We clarify where theoretical arguments converge with empirical evidence and provide guidance for the implementation of ABOs.