An open floor plan has long been considered a design choice that promotes collaboration and communication among teammates in an office environment. However, that’s not the case for every team. In fact ...

This post originally appeared on The Conversation. Open plan offices have taken off because of a desire to increase interaction and collaboration among workers. But an innovative new study has found ...

The open-plan office, destroyer of privacy and killer of productivity, may be phasing out. Employees everywhere rejoice. However, employees may still have to fight for the ability to work in relative ...

It’s a compelling story (one that also sounds nicer as a justification than lower real estate costs), but many people who have actually tried to talk to a colleague in a wide-open, too-quiet office ...

Oscar Wilde is said to have quipped that “God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” Our species is capable of folly on a grand scale. Exhibit No. 4,000 in this litany of woe is the ...

Whenever I post about open plan offices, I get a flood of tweets complaining about how much people hate working in them. I can count on one hand the number of tweets from people who like them. So it’s ...