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 ...

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 ...

Open plan offices offer a great deal of positive attributes and have become the go-to model in the last 20 years or so. They offer transparency, flat hierarchy, free up more space for shared amenities ...

Open-plan offices have become ubiquitous in modern work environments, yet they present significant challenges in terms of acoustic comfort and cognitive performance. Recent studies have highlighted ...

When furniture manufacturer OFS removed the cubicles at its corporate hub in Indiana, employees weren’t sure how the newly flexible, open-plan workspace would work. “It took a lot of conversations ...

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 ...

Osaka, Japan - Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel framework for measuring occupancy in open-plan offices with unprecedented precision. This innovative system uses computer ...

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 ...