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 ...

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 ...

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.

An AMF Fine Stratos Plain suspended ceiling contributes to the clean, crisp environment of accountant Whittingham Riddell's new purposebuilt office. The open-plan design provides a light and airy work ...

Cubicles are back, and we have open plan offices to thank A crop of new startups are racing to reinvent the cubicle, catering to businesses that want more private space for their employees.

Even some new office towers are being made to look like lofts, with high ceilings, flexible floor plans, and exposed columns and pipes that evoke old New York to tech newcomers.

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 ...

How to Make Your Open Office Less Annoying Researchers are testing egg-shaped chairs, retroreflective ceilings, and other ways to help people concentrate without cubicles.

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.

Open plan offices were supposed to be great. They promised eye contact and collaboration, spontaneous creativity and human connection, bright open spaces and communal tea rounds.

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 ...