The ideal office floor plan, according to science By Rebecca Greenfield | August 01, 2016 at 07:22 AM The open office plan that everybody loves to hate is here to stay.

Open office plans in the study — small, medium, and large — saw significantly higher rates of employees who took short-term (less than a week) sick leave compared to those in closed offices.

Having an office with a door, which many employees admit they took for granted when the open office floor plan came about, is now referred to as a "cell office plan." One would think that cell ...

A 1997 study performed by psychologists at the University of Calgary followed how workers adapted from a traditional office setup to an open floor plan. They found that productivity dropped, and ...

3. Determine How People Work First. The floor plan design should not be the starting point of office design. The CEO needs to ask certain questions about how people work.

Open-office floor plans have become an increasingly popular option for businesses, but the risks they present may outweigh the benefits Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

It starts with ditching the open floor plan. “The open office is dead,” says ... The Plaza is a kitchen and lunchroom type space that has all the office’s food-related infrastructure and ...

Those big, wide-open offices don’t work—both for employees and the companies who think they improve collaboration among colleagues. It’s time to rethink what the office is.

The open office plan caught on as a way to kick-start creativity and productivity. In the knowledge economy, placing people in close proximity leads to more idea sharing, or so the theory goes.