Academic interests
- Office concepts
- Work and organizational psychology
- Psychosocial work environment
- Implementation science
- Research methods
PhD project
Around 40 percent of Norwegian employees spend most of their working day on office work. Open-plan workspaces and telework from home have become increasingly common the last decades and more organizations will likely implement new office concepts in the future. To ensure that office concepts in contemporary working life are sustainable with regards to employee health and well-being, new knowledge is needed about how and when different modern office concepts influence health, work ability, sickness absence, and labor market withdrawal. Based on perspectives from work and organizational psychology and data from the Level of Living Survey on Working Conditions (SSB), this project aims to investigate:
1) Differences between employee health, work ability, and sickness absence across different office concepts with data from a representative sample of Norwegian employees
2) Potential mechanisms and conditions that might explain how and when these differences occur.
Project results can be used to improve the adaptation of office workplaces and contribute to a more evidence-based implementation of new office concepts. By investigating effects of office concepts on employee health, including mechanisms and conditions that might explain these effects, the project will contribute with important knowledge for both employers and employees, as well as official authorities.
The project is conducted and financed by The National Institute of Occupational Health in Norway (STAMI).
Research team
Main supervisor: Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Senior Researcher, STAMI
Co-supervisor: Håkon A. Johannessen, Researcher/Group leader, STAMI
Co-supervisor: Knut Inge Fostervold, Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, UiO
Background
Randi Hovden Borge is a PhD Research Fellow at the National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI). She holds a Bachelor's degree in sociology from UiO and a Master's degree in work and organizational psychology from BI Norwegian Business School. She has previously worked as a project associate at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies and as a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology and Human Geography at UiO.