Det kommunikativa kontoret : En kvalitativ studie om aktivitetsbaserade kontors påverkan på intern kommunikation

Sammanfattning: Title The communicative office – A study of the effects that Activity based offices has on internal communication.       Authors                             Carl Varli, Jonas Eklund and Petter Göransson   Course                              Business administration III – Organization – Bachelor’ thesis   Tutor                                 Olle Duhlin             Examiner                          Mikael Lundgren   Background                      The prime focus of activity based office designs are the though of choosing your workplace along with your work task, instead of the other way around. This means that you do not longer have a set workstation of your own, you move around according to where to your current work will be best performed.    Problem                           We want to explore how the communication within a company’s departments has been affected by the introduction of an activity-based office design. Purpose                             The purpose of this study was to get an understanding of how this office design could effect the communication within companies that uses it. Further more, we wanted to study the effects that this kind of office would have on the communication within a department.   Method                              This bachelor thesis are written by inspiration from an inductive approach and based on a multiple qualitative case study of two companies that currently are using an activity based office design. Six interviews contributed to the collection of the empirical data.   Conclusion                       Based on the results of this study we were able to identify a clear change in the HR departments (department by our choosing) communication. The communication generally increased as a result of more interaction between employees from different departments. However, we could also note that at the same time the communication within HR decreased as a direct result of the activity-based office design.          Keywords                          Activity based, Office, HR, Communication, Interaction