#open-plan office

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Modern Offices & Complex Design

Modern office design goes far beyond open floor plans and sleek furniture. It integrates cutting-edge technology, flexible layouts, and an emphasis on employee well-being. These offices are no longer just places to work; they are environments designed to inspire creativity, enhance productivity, and foster collaboration.

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"Get rid of the open-plan office" says Space10 co-founder Simon Caspersen

With hot-desking, working from home and co-working on the rise, Space10 co-founder Simon Caspersen calls for the end of the open-plan office.

read more here:

https://space10.com/can-we-design-our-way-into-better-mental-health/

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Commentary - Open-Plan Offices - How Office Environments Are Making Us Less Social and Why Architects Are to Blame.

Commentary - Open-Plan Offices - How Office Environments Are Making Us Less Social and Why Architects Are to Blame. Open-plan offices were never really about increasing collaboration they were more about saving cost on Real Estate.

There is an article circulating around LinkedIn about a study performed by the Harvard Business School contradicting the notion that open-plan offices promote collaboration.

The article describes a social experiment where the interactions of a group of people working in an open-plan environment were monitored.  According to the findings these people spent 73% less time in face to face…

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How to survive an open-plan office

- buy yourself some noise cancelling headphones

- get a heart attack everytime you realise someone had been standing next to you for a while trying to talk to you

- feel totally overwhelmed once you take the headphones off and realize you’re still sitting in a bee hive

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Open-Plan Offices...Better Than Cubicles?

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Do You Work in an Open-Plan Office?

I'm in the midst of reading "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain, and was especially struck by her discussion around open-plan offices. I've never been overly fond of the set-up as I find it hard to focus, but they are all the rage in the New York start-up scene and seemingly unavoidable. Cain asserts that several studies have shown that there are serious detriments to an open-plan office:

"Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. Open-plan workers are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and elevated stress levels and to get the flu; they argue more with their colleagues; they worry about coworkers eavesdropping on their phone calls and spying on their computer screens. They have fewer personal and confidential conversations with colleagues. They’re often subject to loud and uncontrollable noise, which raises heart rates; releases cortisol, the body’s fight-or-flight “stress” hormone; and makes people socially distant, quick to anger, aggressive, and slow to help others."