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Now: Open Offices; Next: No Offices

Posted on 2018-08-04 by jcs

Over at Second Nexus there’s an article that discusses the Harvard Study on open office spaces that I wrote about previously. If you missed that post, the TL;DR is that the study showed that far from improving collaboration, open offices … 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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Open Offices are Bad for You

Posted on 2017-01-26 by jcs

Who knew? It turns out, though, that besides the noise and risk of contagion, open offices are also bad for your memory. Research shows that we retain more information when we sit in one spot. That’s because ideas and details … Continue reading →

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