The utopian image of productive, social employees that open office once conjured has not met expectations. While the elimination of private offices in favor of communal workstations has cut costs, in ...

The trend among employers has been toward less formal and more open spaces, nixing doors and cubicles for new layouts. A report by Ted Moudis Associates, an architectural and interior design firm, ...

Workers are more creative and productive when they can physically connect and have more face-to-face interactions with coworkers, according to the Gensler Research Institute. Gensler, which ...

From open office to bringing the outdoors in, tech companies have long been trendsetters in office design. Companies like Salesforce, Twitter, Pinterest, Airbnb and Oracle each have their own take on ...

The pros and cons of open office design trends have been hotly debated in recent years, leaving leaders across Corporate America questioning the best way to manage their workers and encourage cohesive ...

The modern open-plan office and the cubicle have origins in historical periods such as ancient Rome and 18th-century London. We’ve managed to invent something even worse than open offices I thought a ...

Despite recent headlines debating the benefits or disadvantages of the open-plan office, collaborative workplace designs—with open-plan layouts, minimal to no individual office space, and, in some ...