ABSTRACT
Well-being is increasingly positioned as the completion of a physical and mental condition related to the social environment in which a person lives and works. Work-related well-being is a component of subjective well-being. This component of well-being is influenced by physiological and psychosomatic components of work and the workplace, still unexplored in the research field of organizational economics. Using a measure based on Heart Rate Variability (HRV), it is analysed how (and to what extent) environmental and microclimatic conditions, as well as the organization of employees’ daily routines and tasks, influence workers’ well-being. Thus, the set of well-being conditions of employees working in an innovative workplace environment (which adopts innovative solutions for the work environment: microclimatic conditions; reservations of desk and spaces for meetings; and activity planning) is compared with those in a standard workplace, in crossed case studies of workplaces in Greece (1), Portugal (1) and Italy (2).
