5 LIMITATIONS
For this study, employees themselves assessed how supportive they consider their work
environments were to be of productivity. Moreover, the questions put did not ask directly
about productivity but about how the environment is seen as contributing towards it.
Consequently, our findings specifically concern only those factors significant to productivity
support emanating from the work environment.
Finally, it should be noted that the great majority of our results (83.8 per cent) come from
public-sector bodies. It may well be that the factors of significance are different in
commercial organisations. On the other hand, the overall gender, age and educational profile