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 ...

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 ...

Ringing phones. Pinging e-mail. Co-workers’ ringing phones and pinging e-mail. How is anyone supposed to get work done in this place? The modern open office was designed for team building and ...

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 ...

Frank Lloyd Wright first came up with the concept of the open-plan office in 1906, in the Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, United States. The innovative nature of this approach, at the beginning ...

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 ...

I was a little late to the open-plan office. Some of my friends have been working without walls or doors for years. A few have even come full circle and are in offices again, but the kind in those ...

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 ...