You've probably walked into a trendy apartment or modern office and marveled at the spacious, airy feel of an open floor plan. It looks great in photos. It seems so inviting, so connected. Yet after ...

New York, United States – 17th April 2026 – KB Housings announces the release of a workplace design framework focused ...

Your company’s design choices may be accelerating employee burnout. Lots of ink has been spilled on the pros and cons of the open plan office layout, and you may have strong opinions about your office ...

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 ...

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 ...

For example, another recent study of the effects of moving from private offices to an open-plan office found that providing access to quiet work-spaces, and a match between a given person's needs for ...

From colleagues chatting about their weekends or having intense phone conversations, to email alerts and loud tapping on keyboards, the evidence that open-plan offices take a toll on our wellbeing ...

The new study, from researchers in two Spanish universities, involved fitting test subjects aged between their mid-20s and mid-60s with wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) devices. The workers were ...