The effect of indoor thermal environment on productivity by a year-long survey of a call centre

Intelligent Buildings International

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 184-194

  Tanabe, Shin Ichi ^a   Kobayashi, Kozo ^b   Kiyota, Osamu ^c   Nishihara, Naoe ^a   Haneda, Masaoki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nikken Sekkei Ltd   (Japan)

^c TOKYO GAS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Call centre; Field survey; Performance; Productivity; Thermal environment

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALL CENTRES; COMFORT ZONE; FIELD SURVEYS; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION MODEL; RESPONSE RATE; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL COMFORT;

SURVEYS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; FIELD SURVEY; INDOOR AIR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY;

EID: 79954499142     PISSN: 17508975     EISSN: 17566932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/inbi.2009.0005     Document Type: Article

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