Health-Supportive Office Design—It Is Chafing Somewhere: Where and Why?

This explorative case study investigates health-promoting office design from an experience and meaning-making perspective in activity-based flex-office (A-FO) a headquarter building. small (n = 11) builds using qualitative data (walk-through focus group interviews). A reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) of the approach was performed on this health sustainability perspective, including physical, mental, social dimensions defined by WHO. Results show wide range participants’ experiences their The control aspect plays central role experiences, factors such as surveillance obeyance, related to status power, turn associated with pleasantness, symbolism, inclusiveness. Three main themes are identified experiences: (1) comfort–non-comfort, (2) outsider–insider, (3) symbolism. major finding is ambiguity among participants about health-supportive building per se its various environments. There sense that it chafing, due dissonance between intention applied design.