open plan

Meeting rooms and open plan café-like seating areas are replacing offices — and where you sit and work no longer denotes your place in the hierarchy.

The open plan “is not great for collaboration, not great for focus work,” Karlsen added.

Found that people who were sent from traditional offices to open-plan offices “were significantly less satisfied.”

I remember him walking past my desk in the open-plan office a few weeks later, saying hi to everyone except me.

“Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted,” Cain wrote.