The Future of Open Plan Offices

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The Future of Open Plan Offices                             

 There’s been an ongoing debate about open plan offices, mostly about how bad these work environments are and how they don’t work. The earliest modern offices were regimented with managers observing office workers sitting in rows of desks and ensuring maximum productivity. The lack of human and social elements to this method of working should be obvious. Today the open-plan environment may look brighter and technology can, of course, improve efficiency and communication, although there’s clearly something going very wrong based on research into this trend of open-plan offices.

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