Abstract:
In simply an office can be defined as a room, set of rooms or building where people work,
usually sitting at desk. Accordingly, office design can be defined as the general arrangement of
the room, set of rooms or building where people work. Most of times, the office design is unsafe
and unhealthy. As a result of that employees get frustrated and they will not perform at their
best. So the main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of office design on
employees’ productivity with the focus on banking organizations which are located in Western
province, Sri Lanka. In order to conduct the study, with the use of random sampling technique
4 banks located in the Western province, Sri Lanka taken in to consideration and 42 respondents
use as the sample. Self-developed questionnaires were distributed among the respondents. In
order to observe the employees performance in the current office structure, spend two days (4)
in each bank (in the office hours). According to the regression results, there is a positive
relationship between the independent variable (office design) and the dependent variable
(employees’ performance) as well according to the correlation analysis there is high
(significant) relationship between independent variable (office design) and the dependent
variable (employees’ performance). Finally it is concluded that, the Office design should be
done in a careful manner otherwise employees get frustrated and they will not perform at their
best. Accordingly employees’ performance will decrease and consequently organizational
performance will decreased.
