It is common knowledge that psychologically distracting and even physiologically damaging noise is ubiquitous in our world, perhaps no more so than in a stressful office environment. Disturbingly though, most people are unaware of the concomitant, severe long-range effects of office...

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Almost a decade ago corporations, following the example of Google and others, adopted the open office floor plan​. Both startups and established firms, big and small, rushed to redesign and embrace what they thought was a revolutionary concept. Even the United...

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If we're being honest, traditional open office floor plans do provide some advantages. The typical open space work environment is fairly cheap, as a company need only purchase desks, computing equipment, and an assortment of other office paraphernalia.  On the other...

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Hypothetically, an open office space is supposed to provide a series of benefits to the workers within it, and, by extension, add significant revenue to the worker's company.  To be clear, an open office is an office layout in which...

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