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 ...

You know you’re in an open-plan office when you click on an article that will allow you to hate-read about open offices, then kind of hide your computer screen with the top half of your torso so ...

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.

Our new study shows the noise of open-plan offices can have detrimental effects on workers' moods, stress levels and maybe even long-term wellbeing, writes Libby Sander.

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 ...