Once a management fad takes hold, however, it can take years and even decades for reality to intrude itself. Thus, despite mountains of research showing that open-plan offices were productivity ...

An open floor plan has long been considered a design choice that promotes collaboration and communication among teammates in an office environment. However, that’s not the case for every team. In fact ...

While open-plan offices save corporations a lot of money, they wreak havoc on your ability to focus, especially when you are working with a difficult person. They can even impact your health - ...

The list (which is very much “conventional wisdom”) illustrates the crazy-making way that companies think about open-plan offices. Can you see the disconnect? Bullets 1 and 4 are saying that people ...

This post originally appeared on The Conversation. Open plan offices have taken off because of a desire to increase interaction and collaboration among workers. But an innovative new study has found ...

Oscar Wilde is said to have quipped that “God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” Our species is capable of folly on a grand scale. Exhibit No. 4,000 in this litany of woe is the ...