THE IMPACT OF BUILDING ENVIRONMENTS ON EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING AND PERFORMANCE

People spend majority of their times in the buildings. Despite all part-time, flexible and distant working options offered to employees, in developed industrial societies, the vast majority of people still work in office buildings. The design, construction and maintenance of buildings have been the subject of separate disciplines such as architecture, engineering and facility management. Research on the employee issues such as productivity, job satisfaction, health and well-being, is also mostly handled in the field of organizational behavior. However, while have been an extensive research in United States, Canada and Europe for many years that bring together these disciplines, are not yet common in Turkey. The purpose of this study is to create a conceptual framework and inform the occupants of workplaces how work environments effects their health, well-being, and productivity based on the current literature. Study emphasizes the importance of environmental factors affecting work environment in personal and working lives. It states that good building designs can serve this need and underlines if investors make the necessary investments, they will be able to compensate the return on their investments