The classic open plan office attempts to simultaneously 1 ... In addition to individual offices, Pixar has a huge atrium that has areas–not work areas–that everyone uses, such as employee ...

The open-plan office will have to evolve ... accessed through the building’s central atrium. “We wanted to find a way to force people to come together,” he said, “to create a lot of ...

The open-plan office, destroyer of privacy and killer of productivity, may be phasing out. Employees everywhere rejoice. However, employees may still have to fight for the ability to work in ...

Last week I explained why open-plan offices are now officially the dumbest management fad of all time. Not only do they decrease rather than increase employee collaboration but they generally have ...

Oceans of office space with rows of desks, it turns out, is distracting. An open-plan office space is seen inside The Peninsula building in Manchester, England, in this Sept. 15, 2010 photo.

For decades, research has found that open plan offices are bad for companies, bad for workers, bad for health and bad for morale. And yet they just won’t die. Human beings, if they are to thrive ...

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 ...

During that time, she's worked in cubicles, open plan offices, and has had her own office spaces. The open plan concept is her winner due to the natural light and varying spaces for work.