THE IMPORTANCE OF VISUAL COMFORT IN MALAYSIAN SHOP OFFICE BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING

Abstract

Workspace is a place should be concerned by society since that people spend one third of their life in it. The quality of workplace can be based on visual comfort and occupants’ job satisfaction. Job satisfaction can affect not only occupants’ performance during work and affects occupants physically and psychologically. Visual comfort is one of the factors can affect job satisfaction of office occupants. Poor visual comfort can cause eyestrain, eye fatigue and even affects occupants’ circadian rhythms. This can affect occupants’ moods and well-being. Visual comfort can be achieved by natural lighting and artificial lighting. This paper will just mention about artificial lighting. Artificial lighting plays a key role in creating a healthy environment that enhance visual comfort in office and increase productivity of office occupants since that natural lighting is not under control due to weather. This study aims to provide a better quality of working environment in shop office by applying appropriate artificial lighting and the effects on employees’ performance during work. Objective of this study is to identify the factors that affect employees’ performance based on visual sector. Investigate the job satisfaction of employees with their working environment and find out the effects of different level of illuminance and correlated colour temperature (CCT).