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Designing Work: A Study Of Collaboration And Concentration In Open-Plan Offices, John Walsh
Designing Work: A Study Of Collaboration And Concentration In Open-Plan Offices, John Walsh
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This article looks at the design of open-plan offices, particularly in relation to the impact of spatial design on different work-modes. It examines the history of the open-plan office, looking at how the open-plan workplace has evolved. It reports the findings of a survey on office design of 150 office workers across multiple industry sectors, job types and age categories. Finally, assuming there will not be a return en masse to the traditional, space hungry, cellular office for most knowledge workers this article considers what have we learned so far, and how spaces can be designed to support different work-modes, …
Knowledge Management: Collaboration Versus Concentration In Open Plan Workspaces, John Walsh
Knowledge Management: Collaboration Versus Concentration In Open Plan Workspaces, John Walsh
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This paper looks at the design of open-plan offices, particularly in relation to the impact ofspatial design on different work-modes. It briefly examines the history of the open plan office, lookingat how today’s typical open-plan workplace has evolved. It considers how workplaces can besuccessfully designed to facilitate the seemingly conflicting requirements of supporting both collaboration and concentration