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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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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Meetings embody the pros and cons of communal working. They offer a high-octane environment, with ideas coming in from all parts of the room. But this is not the best place to take phone calls, think or handle individually minded...

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The Quickborner management team from Hamburg is credited with developing the first open office layout in the 1950’s. But the truth is that some version of the open office layout has existed almost since the first offices came to be....

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