Psychological evaluation of environment of software offices

Abstract

In order to investigate the psychologicaly desirable environmental conditions of software offices, questionnaire surveys based on semantic differential analysis and investigation of environmental conditions were conducted at eleven actual software offices. Factor analysis of the questionnaire shows that two factors named “comfortability” and “concentration” are the important factors in both male and female software developers. Some factors are mixed in male but clearely separate in female. This shows that male evaluate the environment of software offices roughly but female minutely. The relation of factors and the actual environmental conditions of software offices shows that “privacy”, “trim”, “interior decoration”, “neatness” and “room for individual working zone” are the important conditions which affect the psychological evaluation of software offices.