Where we work matters: A scoping review of literature on the influences of work environments on workers & their work

This cross-disciplinary review highlights a number of important associations between the physical work environment, workers, and their work across literatures and across settings. While our current understanding of the interplay amongst work attitudes, environment, and performance is far from nuanced and has been delimited by conceptual differences and methodological deficits, what is clear from this review is that where we work matters to individual workers’ physical and mental health, to their attitudes about their work, to collaboration amongst workers and their ability to carry out interdependent tasks, and quite likely to the overall performance of the organizations that employ them.