Translating the values and aesthetic of design firm Think Company was essential in the company’s recent office expansion, according to its director of marketing, Suzanne Cotter. The firm, founded in ...

Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel framework for measuring occupancy in open-plan offices with ...

An open office layout is seen in 2016 at Coyote Logistics in Chicago. Keri Wiginton / Chicago Tribune. Employees work Sept. 12, 2016, at G2 Crowd, a peer-to-peer software review company in Chicago.

But for the actual office workers using open offices, the experience has been less than ideal. They’re noisy and lack privacy, they reinforce sexist behavior, and they even make people quit ...

Once thought of as the height of sophistication, open-plan layouts have long been loved for their ability to make a home feel larger, more connected, and contemporary. As trends change and more of ...

The lure of open office layouts seems logical–when hybrid workers come into the office, employers want the focus to be on collaboration and face-to-face interactions, and open space layouts seem ...

As these assignments change, the layout of movable partitions and furniture in an office is also likely to change. And as the furniture and walls move, so too must the supporting network cabling. The ...

Barriers to productivity. As both a design trend and a cost-saving measure, open office arrangements have become increasingly common. The modern concept was made popular by early 20 th-century ...

Another study found that open office layout plans amounted to increased sick days, and they noted that only cubicles had more disadvantages. Not every business has space for a perfect layout, ...

It’s been a busy week for Bloomberg in office space-related news. The tweet links to a Politico article on his campaign’s move to a Times Square office, where there’s “an open layout with ...