Maybe open office spaces have initiated the halcyon days of productivity, or perhaps they’re a harbinger of workplace ...

Kelso Harper: Do you hate your open-plan office? Are you even in an office anymore? COVID changed how we use office spaces, and now many employers are starting to rethink their design. Today, we’re ...

Clive Wilkinson Architects championed open offices for big companies such as Google and Microsoft. Now, as the pandemic has led to a massive overhaul of work life, they envision something completely ...

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 ...

Most offices have that one worker who has problems controlling their indoor voice. Either too loud or too soft, it can be ...

Popular in the business world, open-plan offices are spaces full of possibilities, but also where true employee autonomy is difficult to achieve. Freedom and independence in decision-making can bring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Higher speech levels make open-plan partitions less effective at reducing noise than once thought, says Joonhee Lee ...