Ergonomic and Antropometric Effects in Office Design

Ergonomy is defined as the orientation process of people and the environment in terms of physical and psychological aspects, the process of people use their potentials without any bodily or mental difficulties. There are features regarding various professions and environmental conditions as well as tendencies, abilities and limitations on people and machines. In today’s contemporary world, most of the office workers face with some problems about working environments and conditions that affects the bodily and mental health as well as labor productivity the employees negatively. The problems which emerge in the work place, designing the tools and furnitures without considering the ergonomic factors, unsuitable environmental conditions and considering people as machines led uneasiness, dissatisfaction and reduced labor productivity among people. Dicrease in labor productivity affect employees’psychology negatively. In order to prevent this psychological and physical negativity, the arrangement of the office spaces in a way that doesn’t let people fail before machines and working systems is necessary. By considering human antropometric measurament, anatomic structure, physiological capacity and tolerance; by providing the conditions which make them get affected under organic and psychological stress minimal, new thought systems and newfuture thought systems must be build by researching ergonomic office designs. The scope of this work is examining the office furniture’s effect on working psychology and labor productivity. In this work, the articles and other scientific resources are used by making a literatüre review