| INTRODUCTIONVarious elements have an impact on the physical work environment. These include indoor lighting, the color of walls and furnishing, the level of privacy, opportunities for outside viewing, furnishings, and plants. Those elements also directly affect the people who work in and visit those settings. Studies have shown that well-designed environments make people feel happy and energized, while those that are poorly designed have the opposite effect. An understanding of the relationship between environmental design and residents' behavior and outcomes can help designers and architects improve interior designs for better performance in offices, schools, universities, and other environments where people gather and work, as well as highlight to managers the value of attention to such details (Hoff & Öberg, 2015;Luck, 2004;Samani, Rasid, & Sofian, 2014).The physical aspects of employees' work environments have been shown to affect their job satisfaction, as well as performance and other outcomes (Baron, 2013; Collett & Furnham, 2013;Lee & Guerin, 2009;Oldham, Kulik, & Stepina, 1991;Roelofsen, 2002;Samani, Rasid, & Sofian, 2017b;Veitch, 2011;Vischer, 2007b). In general, workers' performance, work-related behavior, job and environmental satisfaction, motivation, and well-being at work will be affected by how well they feel they fit into their work environment (Hwang & Kim, 2013). In terms of work-related behavior, both job and environmental satisfaction are considered key indicators of performance in a work environment (Samani, Rasid, & Sofian, 2017a;Truxillo, Cadiz, Rineer, Zaniboni, & Fraccaroli, 2012). Therefore, they are critical to the success of an organization.Environmental satisfaction occurs in settings where individuals feel that their expectations and basic needs are being met (Lee, 2006). Employees within an organization typically need to adjust their own needs and requirements to the environmental features and ambient condition of the workplace in order to control the use of space and to create personal space that will enhance their productivity (Boerstra, Beuker, Loomans, & Hensen, 2013;Brager, Paliaga, & De Dear, 2004;Lee & Brand, 2010;Samani, Rasid, & Sofian, 2015a). Psychologists have generally found job satisfaction and positive organizational outcome to be the two main consequences of a suitable work environment. Prior studies have examined the direct relationships among the physical variables of the work environment and employees' comfort, behavior, and satisfaction with both the work environment and their job. These include studies on the effect of air quality and thermal comfort on employee satisfaction and productivity (Höppe & Martinac, 1998;Huizenga, Abbaszadeh, Zagreus, & Arens, 2006;Tanabe, Haneda, & Nishihara, 2015), the influence of office lighting strategies on employees' satisfaction and productivity (Katzev, 1992;Newsham, Brand, Donnelly, Veitch, Aries, & Charles, 2009), acoustic satisfaction (Haque & Anwar, 2012;Navai & Veitch, 2003), and the effect of the work environment o...
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