Popular in the business world, open-plan offices are spaces full of possibilities, but also where true employee autonomy is difficult to achieve. Freedom and independence in decision-making can bring ...

Your company’s design choices may be accelerating employee burnout. Lots of ink has been spilled on the pros and cons of the open plan office layout, and you may have strong opinions about your office ...

You've probably walked into a trendy apartment or modern office and marveled at the spacious, airy feel of an open floor plan. It looks great in photos. It seems so inviting, so connected. Yet after ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Ringing phones. Pinging e-mail. Co-workers’ ringing phones and pinging e-mail. How is anyone supposed to ...

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 ...

Bullying is more likely to happen in open-plan offices, according to new research. The layout leads to a "clearly increased risk" of workplace bullying compared with employees having their own office ...

Clive Wilkinson Architects championed open offices for big companies such as Google and Microsoft. Now, as the pandemic has led to a massive overhaul of work life, they envision something completely ...

For example, another recent study of the effects of moving from private offices to an open-plan office found that providing access to quiet work-spaces, and a match between a given person's needs for ...

The modern open-plan office and the cubicle have origins in historical periods such as ancient Rome and 18th-century London. The best way to fix your open plan office? Plants, and lots of them The ...

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The new study, from researchers in two Spanish universities, involved fitting test subjects aged between their mid-20s and mid-60s with wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) devices. The workers were ...