According to a recent Ecophon survey, around 40 % of employees in open-plan offices feel permanently annoyed by being able to hear their colleagues’ small talk. In order to remedy this situation, the ...

Open-plan offices may break down walls… but they don’t break the ice. The hip architectural style — favored by the likes of Google and Facebook — makes use of large accessib… ...

If you’ve ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren’t imagining it. Prior to the pandemic 70% of office-based ...

While exposed ceilings in office interiors lend a spacious, open feel, this trendy architectural feature has created a new challenge: finding a viable return air path. Plenum ceilings use the area ...

The open-plan office was once touted as a solution to space and communication issues. Instead, it has led to less productivity and more issues with problem employees.

1. Open-plan offices make bad bosses inescapable. A recent Gallup poll of a million U.S. workers discovered a bad boss is the No. 1 reason people leave their jobs. According to the British ...

The AK2 Workspace Divider was designed for De Vorm by Ivan Kasner and Uli Budde, with the aim of fostering a sense of privacy by partially separating both sides of a work table.

For their sake, and the progress of their upcoming research, let's hope that the Stockholm team isn't working in an open-plan office. More information: Ergonomics DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2013.871064 ...

I was a little late to the open-plan office. Some of my friends have been working without walls or doors for years. A few have even come full circle and are in offices again, but the kind in those ...

According to a recent Ecophon survey, around 40 % of employees in open-plan offices feel permanently annoyed by being able to hear their colleagues’ small talk. In order to remedy this situation, the ...