1. The Effect of Physical
Environment on Learning

2. • What the study was about
• How did it happen
• What were the findings
• What can we say about them?
• How does this connect to all of us here?
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What are we talking about today?

3. About
• Learning
• Physical environments
• The Social
• What we thought about how these effected each other
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Open office
environments
Situated
Learning
Territoriality Social climate

5. How
• Scales
• Companies
• People
• Analysis
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No. Company Location Domain
1 A Pune Software
2 B Mumbai/Pune IT Consulting
3 C Bangalore Software
4 D Bangalore Software
5 E Bangalore Software
6 F Hyderabad IT Consulting

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Gender Age
Male 77.1% Mean 29.93
Female 22.9%
Total
Marital Status Tenure in Company
(years)
Unmarried 46.9% Mean 2.84
Married 53.1%
Total
Education Work Experience (years)
BA/BSc/BCo
m
8.51% Mean 6.52
Engineering 39.43%
MA/MSC/MC
om
9.28%
MBA/MCA 39.69% Team Size
Others 3.09% Mean 12.74
Total
Gender Age
 Male 62.5% Mean 29.21
 Female 37.5%
 Total 100%
Marital Status Tenure in Company (years)
 Unmarried 50% Mean (years) 3.12
 Married 50%
 Total 100%
Education Work Experience (years)
 BA/BSC/BCo
m
4.17% Mean 5.14
 Engineering 29.17%
 MA/MSC/MC
om
12.5% Team Size
 MBA/MCA 50% Mean 12
 Others 4.17%
 Total 100%

8. Findings
• Quant
• Interviews
• Observation
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Central
aisles
Canteen
Differences in the physical
In the social
In organizational features
In learning

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EntryPantry and Restrooms
Director’s and CTO work area
Open Workspace
Least connected
Most connected
Least integrated
Most integrated

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16. What can we say?
• What kinds of learning
• Territoriality and Social climate and their role
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17. So what does it say to us?
• My understanding
• What can we say about territoriality?
• What can we say about social?
• What can we say about the physical
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18. Lets talk about it!!
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