Workplace Environment towards Emotional Health

Workplace ergonomics, such as air quality, lighting, furniture and tools, acoustics and building’s general environment, have a significant relationship between worker’s satisfaction and performance. Poor workplace ergonomics or organization comfort level has significant economic implications for the organizations through employee dissatisfaction, lowered productivity and lowered emotional and physical health of the employees. Lower emotional health leads to psychological distress, depression and anxiety, whereas lower physical health leads to heart disease, insomnia, headaches, and infections. A field study of 40 academicians through questionnaire explored selected workplace ergonomics design and their effects on physical and emotional health. Research finding shows that there is a significant relationship between building’s general environment of the organizations and the health complaints from the employees. The findings also confirmed that there is significant relationship between the workplace ergonomics and the health complaints from the employees. This study will support a better evaluation of development policies of workplace ergonomics design by management. In the long term such action taken by management authorities to increase organizations comfort level (air quality, lighting, furniture and tools, acoustics and building’s general environment) would produce benefits for the institution in terms of improved physical and emotional health.