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How We Know the Open Office Concept Has Failed

Posted on 2021-07-28 by jcs

As you all know to your sorrow, Irreal has been railing against open offices for years. COVID-19 has done more than anything to put an end to this abomination but like a vampire or a zombie, the concept is surprising … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 and Open Offices

Posted on 2020-05-10 by jcs

There’s not many beneficial outcomes from the current COVID-19 crisis but The New York Times suggests one possibility: the end of open plan offices. The Times doesn’t say that open plan offices will go away because of the pandemic but … Continue reading →

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Open Office Sanity Strategies

Posted on 2019-08-31 by jcs

I keep resolving to stop writing about open office spaces. Even though I’ve never suffered having to work in one, I find their use almost as infuriating as I do the government’s illegal surveillance. Sadly, the madness goes on, I … Continue reading →

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Open Offices Again

Posted on 2019-03-28 by jcs

I thought I was finished with writing about the horror known as Open Offices for a while but I just came across an article that so fully mirrors my feelings on the subject that I had to wade into the … Continue reading →

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DHH on Open Offices

Posted on 2018-07-19 by jcs

David Heinemeier Hansson has a nice article on open offices: The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. He cites the usual research showing that purported gains in interaction and communication just don’t happen and that … Continue reading →

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Kontra Nails It on Open Offices

Posted on 2017-10-08 by jcs

How many bean counters does it take to finally grok giant open-space office layouts are counterproductive? — Kontra (@counternotions) October 8, 2017 He also points to this New York Times article on office design, which describes a movement away from … Continue reading →

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Open Offices and Sickness

Posted on 2017-10-01 by jcs

In a study that should surprise absolutely no one, a paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health concludes that occupants of open plan offices take 62% more sick days than those with private offices. (The paper itself … Continue reading →

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The Truth About Open Offices

Posted on 2015-11-26 by jcs

I’ve written many times about the foolishness and destructiveness of open plan offices. Here is a pithy summary of the truth about such plans. If you want to know why they are so beloved of management, take a look at … Continue reading →

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Roundup of Open Plan Office Research

Posted on 2015-07-05 by jcs

Jack Schofield over at ZD Net has a nice post on the evils of open plan office layouts. That’s a favored Irreal hobbyhorse, of course, so you might think I’ve said just about everything there is to say about the … Continue reading →

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Making Open Offices Less Bad

Posted on 2015-05-30 by jcs

I’ve written many times about the evils and absurdities of open plan offices. There’s lots of duckspeak about improving communication or culture building but everyone knows that its real—and only—virtue is that it’s cheap. Given that fact, if you find … Continue reading →

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