Bodin Danielsson C

Employee workspace preferences in a mandated hybrid work policy: A discrete choice experiment Objective Understanding employee workspace preferences is crucial for designing office work environments that meet their needs. This study investigated employee office design preferences within a mandated hybrid work model at a higher education institution.

1. Introduction Boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’ have long captured human interest. Yet even as social scientists continue to study the value of a vast array of boundaries [1], in an era in which the nature of work is changing [2–4], managers and organizational scholars have increasingly framed boundaries as barriers to interaction that ought to be spanned [5–8], permeated [9] or blurred [10] to increase collaboration.