Pilot Study on Lighting Environment and Organizational Productivity

The lighting design for future office spaces should not only ensure visual workability, but also enhance the employees’ productivity, creativity, satisfaction and etc. that would generate the value of working in face to face in office buildings. The purpose of this study is to identify the criteria for evaluating the visual environment of office space in terms of the organizational productivity to be addressed in office visual design. The results of the image evaluation experiment to extract the visual elements and lighting conditions that are required for several different types of office activity are reported.