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Open-plan offices drive down face-to-face interactions and increase use of email (bps.org.uk)
3 points by Dowwie on July 5, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I'm not sure what the point of conducting the study was. I don't think any companys with open offices really thought they helped improve employee interaction. That was just a line used to help justify them putting lower rent before employee well being. No one planning to implement open offices is going to change plans because of a study such as this.


The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/373/17...




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