Here's a great counter article.
http://workplaceinsight.net/we-shouldnt-be-too-quick-to-demonise-the-open-plan-office/
in response to all the articles lately about this very issue.
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Hello everyone. I'm really liking this discussion about more of the
design/architecture of coworking spaces, or at least open plans. There'll be
at least 1-2 sessions on this @GCUC in Kansas City, so I hope many of you
attend both GCUC and these sessions.
As for the below responses, I fully a
Best environment I ever worked in was *mostly* open... very low partitions. In our case (Nokia service office), people adjusted and noise of any kind was never an issue. We had glass-walled rooms around the perimeter for meetings, etc. Amazingly enough, we had a high number of introvert
And this is not that surprising. It is much easier to change a floorplan,
which merely involves throwing money around, than it is to change a
culture, which is a lot of hard, and frequently uncomfortable, work, on the
part of everyone from the CEO on down. It is hard because it means changing
ingra
1) if you're good for everyone, you're great for no-one.
2) earlier this year, noise levels came up as an opportunity for improving Indy
Hall during one of our own internal research projects.
Curious for more details, I followed up with a subsequent line of questions:
where so you belie
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/nov/18/open-plan-offices-bad-harvard-business-review
Putting this out there because I suspect what gets posted is generally
filtered toward the "coworking positive".
While cubicles are the worst, this article is about shortcomings of
open-plan offices more
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